Bessazoon

No picture of Bessazoon was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Bessazoon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 7.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurian441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441 Mya432.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Bessazoon on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

10 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

7 formations

Hughley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.12°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.63°WWych Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WButtington Mudstone — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMay Hill Sandstone — 52.67°N, 2.00°WSkelgill — 52.67°N, 2.00°WTrewern Brook Mudstone — 52.67°N, 2.00°W

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

Bessazoon and its relatives

Silurian

Where Bessazoon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Bessazoon, 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 10 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 Bessazoon was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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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What may have been alongside itDalmanitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Curtis and Lane 1998