Burmeisteria

Burmeisteria is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida that existed during the lower Devonian in what is now South Africa. It was described by Salter in 1865, and the type species is Burmeisteria herschelii, which was originally described under the genus Homalonotus by Murchison in 1839. It also contains the species B. accraensis, B. acuminata, and B. noticus. The type locality was the Bokkeveld Group.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomalonotinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Homalonotidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 43 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 42 of 43 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 3 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 3 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 3 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 3 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 3 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 3 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426.7 Mya393.47 Mya433.8 Mya387.1 Mya

43 occurrences of Burmeisteria 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

43 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

17 formations

Gydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 32.18°S, 18.90°EGydo — 33.77°S, 20.92°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EGydo — 32.40°S, 20.67°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WVoorstehoek — 33.50°S, 19.82°EVoorstehoek — 33.36°S, 19.51°EVoorstehoek — 33.30°S, 21.63°EPimenteira — 7.40°S, 41.52°WPimenteira — 7.00°S, 42.00°WPimenteira — 6.33°S, 41.42°WAtafaitafa — 23.77°N, 5.33°EAtafaitafa — 26.42°N, 7.30°ECatavi — 17.40°S, 66.15°WOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WZeimlet — 29.52°N, 2.20°WTra-Tra — 33.28°S, 19.52°EBelen — 17.00°S, 68.00°WIcla — 19.00°S, 65.00°WGamoneda — 21.50°S, 64.00°WCordobes — 33.00°S, 55.00°WMurray Creek — 42.12°S, 171.85°EBolitho Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°ERanft Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAbelgas — 42.85°N, 5.24°W

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The named rock units Burmeisteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Burmeisteria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Burmeisteria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Burmeisteria, 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

9 references

Each of the 43 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. 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 content0

No picture of Burmeisteria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Burmeisteria was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itHomalonotinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1865