Boreochiton ruber

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Boreochiton ruber on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Boreochiton ruber and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Boreochiton ruber and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Admete viridula2 sites
- Astarte borealis2 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Balanus crenatus2 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica2 sites
- Crenella decussata2 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis2 sites
- Erginus rubellus2 sites
- Hemithyris psittacea2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Lepeta2 sites
- Lima subauriculata2 sites
- Littorina2 sites
- Littorina saxatilis groenlandica2 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea2 sites
- Moelleria costulata2 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata2 sites
- Mytilus edulis2 sites
- Puncturella noachina2 sites
- Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis2 sites
- Trophon truncatus2 sites
- Acirsa borealis1 site
- Anatoma crispata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Boreochiton ruber, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Boreochiton ruber
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Boreochiton ruber was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.