Broeggeria

No picture of Broeggeria 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 Broeggeria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElkaniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Cambrian — about 14 of 40 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 25 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 40 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 40 occurrencesDevonian499–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 5 occurrences492–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–485 Mya — about 5 occurrences485–481 Mya — about 8 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences413–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya410.62 Mya499 Mya391 Mya

40 occurrences of Broeggeria 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

40 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

19 formations

Bestogai — 43.62°N, 69.94°EUzunbulak — 43.83°N, 75.33°EUzunbulak — 44.04°N, 75.12°EUzunbulak — 43.92°N, 75.44°EValhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°ECwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WCeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°EGuanacuna — 17.62°S, 62.22°WGuanacuna — 22.00°S, 65.00°WSluice Box — 42.27°S, 172.27°EShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EDictyonema Shale — 55.58°N, 14.13°ETucumilla — 21.00°S, 65.00°WSanta Rosita — 24.00°S, 66.00°WBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°WNinemile — 39.20°N, 116.44°WBjorkasholmen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EKujandy — 43.92°N, 75.48°ELampazar — 23.23°S, 65.63°W

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The named rock units Broeggeria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Broeggeria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Broeggeria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Broeggeria, 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

22 references

Each of the 40 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. 10 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Broeggeria 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 Broeggeria, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1902