Beecheria expansa
No picture of Beecheria expansa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Beecheria expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeecheriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Beecheria expansa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Beecheria expansa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beecheria expansa and its relatives
PermianWhere Beecheria expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Enteletes wolfcampensis2 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis2 sites
- Rhynchopora molina2 sites
- Teguliferina boesei2 sites
- Agathiceras1 site
- Akmilleria adkinsi1 site
- Annuliconcha dentata1 site
- Artinskia artiensis1 site
- Baylea huecoensis1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) parvicristus1 site
- Biarmeaspira multilineata1 site
- Boesites1 site
- Boesites kingi1 site
- Cleiothyridina rectimarginata1 site
- Coelocladiella philoconcha1 site
- Composita strongyle1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Derbyia bella1 site
- Derbyia profunda1 site
- Derbyia strophomenoidea1 site
- Derbyoides dunbari1 site
- Dielasma pygmaeum1 site
- Diplanus catatonus1 site
- Diplanus redactus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Beecheria expansa, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Beecheria expansa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Beecheria expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beecheria expansa 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 itBeecheria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976