Breviscutellum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StyginidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Breviscutellum 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
6 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
5 formations
- Sidi Ahroun Limestone Formation2
- Kellerwand Formation1
- Ghtira Limestone Formation1
- Hamar Laghdad Limestone Formation1
- Vizhay Formation1
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The named rock units Breviscutellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Breviscutellum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Breviscutellum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Nowakia4 sites
- Kegeliella listei3 sites
- Kolihapeltis3 sites
- Montanproetus pernix3 sites
- Alberticoryphe rugosa2 sites
- Eremiproetus cacuminatus2 sites
- Guerichina2 sites
- Isoprusia2 sites
- Reedops bronni2 sites
- Viriatellina2 sites
- Acanthopyge1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alberticoryphe1 site
- Alberticoryphe cogneyi1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Asteropyginae1 site
- Aulacostrepsis1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Bicarina1 site
- Boiotremus1 site
- Bojoscutellum1 site
- Buchiproetus mauretanicus1 site
- Calloconus1 site
- Carinatina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Breviscutellum, 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- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II.2
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. I. Mit Beitraegen zur Silur-Devon-Stratigraphie einiger Gebiete Marokkos und Oberfrankens2
- Wenlockian to Emsian communities of the Carnic Alps (Austria and Italy)1
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Breviscutellum 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 Breviscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStyginidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Snajdr 1960