Braunops obsoletus

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BraunopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Braunops obsoletus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Arauz Formation · Abadia Group1
- Mariposas Formation1
- Reun Ar C'Hrank Formation1
- Abelgas Formation · La Vid Group1
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The named rock units Braunops obsoletus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Braunops obsoletus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Braunops obsoletus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Pleurodictyum3 sites
- Arduspirifer arduennensis2 sites
- Cleistodictyum porosum2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Metacanthina asnoensis2 sites
- Nowakia2 sites
- Otarion2 sites
- Paralepidoproetus chouberti2 sites
- Platyscutellum2 sites
- Polygnathus2 sites
- Treveropyge acrifrons2 sites
- Trimerus2 sites
- Acastava1 site
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Botryocrinus1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Chlupacina1 site
- Combophyllum1 site
- Coniproetus1 site
- Costulatostyliolina1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Braunops obsoletus, 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
4 references- Silur und Devon im Arauz-Gebiet (Prov. Palencia, N-Spanien)1
- Devonian trilobites of the southern Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) with a systematic description of the Asteropyginae1
- Incursion Hercynienne dans les faunes rhenanes du Devonien inferieur de La Rade de Brest (Massif Armoricain)1
- Die Acastavinae und Asteropyginae (Trilobita) Keltiberiens (NE-Spanien)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 Braunops obsoletus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Braunops obsoletus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBraunops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gandl 1972)