Beecherella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeecherellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.1 Mya412.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Beecherella 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

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.

Beecherella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Beecherella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Beecherella, 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

2 references

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 Beecherella 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 Beecherella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Beecherella 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 itBeecherellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.