Kjerulfina broeggeri

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KjerulfinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 5.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.7 Mya452.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Kjerulfina broeggeri 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

2 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

2 formations

Arnestad — 60.09°N, 9.11°EArnestad - Frognerkilen — 60.07°N, 10.17°E

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

Kjerulfina broeggeri and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Kjerulfina broeggeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kjerulfina broeggeri, 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 2 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 Kjerulfina broeggeri 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 Kjerulfina broeggeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kjerulfina broeggeri was found in Sketchfab.

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

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

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What may have been alongside itKjerulfina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Holtedahl 1916)