Brachyaspidion sulcatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachyaspidionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Kingstoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.
4 occurrences of Brachyaspidion sulcatum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
- Lower Wheeler Shale Formation1
- Upper Wheeler Shale Formation1
- Duchesnay Formation1
- Wheeler Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Brachyaspidion sulcatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachyaspidion sulcatum and its relatives
CambrianWhere Brachyaspidion sulcatum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Modocia3 sites
- Arthropoda2 sites
- Asaphiscus wheeleri2 sites
- Bathyuriscus fimbriatus2 sites
- Elrathia kingi2 sites
- Hemirhodon2 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Marpolia spissa2 sites
- Morania fragmenta2 sites
- Naraoia compacta2 sites
- Oesia2 sites
- Olenoides nevadensis2 sites
- Acadagnostus acadica1 site
- Acidusus occultatus1 site
- Acrothele subsidua1 site
- Acrothyra1 site
- Acrothyra minor1 site
- Acrotretida1 site
- Altiocculus harrisi1 site
- Amplectobelua stephenensis1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Anomalocarididae1 site
- Archaeocothurnus bifida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachyaspidion sulcatum, 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
4 references- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)1
- A new, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale-type biota, Bolaspidella zone, Chancellor Basin, southeastern British Columbia1
- Middle Cambrian priapulids and other soft-bodied fossils from Utah and Spain1
- Upper Middle Cambrian stratigraphy of western Utah1
Each of the 4 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 Brachyaspidion sulcatum 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 Brachyaspidion sulcatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachyaspidion sulcatum 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 itBrachyaspidion through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison 1964