Borestus

No picture of Borestus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Borestus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymatopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 28 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic362–357 Mya — about 2 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 4 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 9 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–309 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353.7 Mya211.18 Mya362 Mya203 Mya

35 occurrences of Borestus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

35 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

20 formations

Dangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WAmsden — 43.18°N, 109.20°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WLower Limestone — 56.12°N, 3.47°WLower Limestone — 55.72°N, 4.76°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WTulcumba Sandstone — 30.70°S, 150.37°ENamoi — 30.98°S, 150.50°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WAlvy Creek — 36.80°N, 84.55°WH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°EImo — 35.78°N, 92.44°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSurmaq — 30.91°N, 53.22°ELongtan — 26.55°N, 105.60°EMojon de Hierro — 43.74°S, 69.88°WScremerston — 55.18°N, 2.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 98.81°WGene Autry Shale — 34.24°N, 96.88°W

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The named rock units Borestus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Borestus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Borestus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Borestus, 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

21 references

Each of the 35 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. 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Borestus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Borestus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Borestus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPhymatopleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1940