Brachytomaria baltica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachytomariaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 400 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Brachytomaria baltica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
4 formations
- Jôhvi Formation1
- Saunja Formation1
- Adila Formation1
- Moe Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Brachytomaria baltica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachytomaria baltica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Brachytomaria baltica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Anthozoa1 site
- Brachiopoda indet.1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cyclonema rupestre1 site
- Elsaella bekkeri1 site
- Eochonetes1 site
- Eotomaria notabilis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Geniculina pseudoalternata1 site
- Harjumena schmidti1 site
- Hormotoma insignis1 site
- Kokenospira lateralis1 site
- Latitaenia rotelloidea1 site
- Loxoplocus silurica1 site
- Luhaia vardi1 site
- Megalomphala crassiuscula1 site
- Nybyoceras balticum1 site
- Nybyoceras bekkeri1 site
- Nybyoceras intermedium1 site
- Ormoceras heckeri1 site
- Platystrophia lutkevichi1 site
- Protoheliolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachytomaria baltica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Koken and Perner, 19253
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Brachytomaria baltica
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Brachytomaria baltica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBrachytomaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Murchison et al. 1845)