Bronteopsis

Bronteopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StygininaePBDB
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 least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 27 of 28 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 28 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 5 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482.9 Mya422.7 Mya485 Mya418 Mya

28 occurrences of Bronteopsis 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

28 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

21 formations

Balclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°WBalclatchie — 54.84°N, 4.05°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 60.84°N, 11.01°ESolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°EVollen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVollen — 59.93°N, 10.49°ELantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°WLiberty Hall — 38.53°N, 78.60°WDalby — 61.00°N, 15.00°EGullhogen Mudstone — 58.00°N, 14.00°ESegerstad Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°ESeby Limestone — 60.91°N, 15.02°ERhiwlas Limestone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EChedao — 37.00°N, 107.00°ECystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WGullhögen — 58.00°N, 12.00°ECeratopyge Limestone — 56.24°N, 16.45°EBeyrichian Limestone — 58.17°N, 13.53°EDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WKhankhara — 51.07°N, 84.94°EBugryshikha — 51.26°N, 82.81°EChasmops Limestone — 63.00°N, 14.80°E

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

Bronteopsis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bronteopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Bronteopsis, 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

18 references

Each of the 28 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. 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Bronteopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Nicholson and Etheridge 1879