Brachymetopus maccoyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachymetopusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Brachymetopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
14 occurrences of Brachymetopus maccoyi 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
14 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
9 formations
- Milldale Limestone Formation3
- Carboniferous Limestone Formation2
- Vegamian Formation2
- Waulsort Formation1
- Erdbach Limestone Formation1
- Leffe Formation1
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The named rock units Brachymetopus maccoyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachymetopus maccoyi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Brachymetopus maccoyi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Phillipsia gemmulifera5 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Archegonus3 sites
- Bollandia3 sites
- Cummingella3 sites
- Paladin3 sites
- Reediella3 sites
- Brachymetopus spinosus2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Cummingella jonesi2 sites
- Cyrtoproetus2 sites
- Dzhaprakoceras2 sites
- Hippocardia hibernica2 sites
- Namuropyge2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Phillibolina2 sites
- Winterbergia2 sites
- Acanthopecten1 site
- Acanthoplecta1 site
- Actinoconchus1 site
- Actinocrinites1 site
- Ammonellipsites1 site
- Ammonellipsites clitheroensis1 site
- Amplexus coralloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Brachymetopus maccoyi, 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
7 references- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species3
- New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England3
- Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 2. Brachymetopus.3
- Die Karbon-Trilobiten des Kantabrischen Gebirges (NW-Spanien) 1: Die Trilobiten der Vegamian-Schichten (Ober-Tournai) [Carboniferous trilobites of the Cantabrian Cordillera (NW Spain) 1: Trilobites of the Vegamian Formation (Upper Tournaisian)]2
- Trilobite fauna at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in South China (S-Guizhou and N-Guangxi)1
- Trilobiten aus dem Unter-Carbon der S-Vogesen [Lower Carboniferous trilobites from the Southern Vosges, France]1
- A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortian Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin1
Each of the 14 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.
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No picture of Brachymetopus maccoyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Brachymetopus maccoyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachymetopus maccoyi 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 itBrachymetopus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Portlock 1843)