Beyrichiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeyrichioideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 203 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 378 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 275 of 378 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 64 of 378 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 378 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 378 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 378 occurrences462–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–448 Mya — about 15 occurrences448–441 Mya — about 9 occurrences441–434 Mya — about 54 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 64 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 148 occurrences419–412 Mya — about 13 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 8 occurrences405–398 Mya — about 5 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 7 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 25 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 6 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 6 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–326 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences284–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences457.2 Mya254.14 Mya462 Mya248 Mya

378 occurrences of Beyrichiidae 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

378 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

126 formations

Tonoloway Limstone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.40°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.70°N, 78.18°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WWilliamson — 43.20°N, 77.62°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.30°WWilliamson — 43.24°N, 76.14°WMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.87°N, 78.78°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 39.20°N, 78.86°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WRochester Shale — 39.57°N, 78.84°WRochester Shale — 39.12°N, 79.17°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WMuksha Subsuite — 51.82°N, 34.22°EMuksha Subsuite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EMcKenzie — 39.62°N, 78.22°WMcKenzie — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMcKenzie — 39.57°N, 78.84°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WPagegiai — 55.19°N, 21.80°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WTonoloway — 39.57°N, 78.83°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.70°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WWhite Head — 48.50°N, 64.25°WWhite Head — 48.56°N, 64.41°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EUpper Whitcliffe — 52.35°N, 2.72°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.35°N, 2.83°WKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°W

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The named rock units Beyrichiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 102 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beyrichiidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Beyrichiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 276 sites for Beyrichiidae, and this reads 240 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

90 references

Each of the 378 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. 78 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Beyrichiidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1894