Breizhops

Breizhops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now Brittany, France. It was described by Morzadec in 1983, and the type species is Breizhops lanceolatus.

No picture of Breizhops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Breizhops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcastidaePBDB
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 6.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400 Mya393 Mya

3 occurrences of Breizhops 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

3 occurrences

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

3 formations

Le Fret — 48.40°N, 4.48°WPen An Ero — 48.40°N, 4.48°WKerdreolet — 48.40°N, 4.48°W

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The named rock units Breizhops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Breizhops and its relatives

Devonian

Where Breizhops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Breizhops, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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

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No picture of Breizhops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Breizhops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morzadec 1983