Brachytomaria papillosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachytomariaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 440.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Brachytomaria papillosa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician90%
- Silurian10%
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
- Ellis Bay Formation · Jolliet Group6
- Vauréal Formation2
- Vaureal Formation1
- Becscie Formation1
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The named rock units Brachytomaria papillosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachytomaria papillosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Brachytomaria papillosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Subulites ellisensis6 sites
- Hindella5 sites
- Aulacera undulata4 sites
- Calapoecia4 sites
- Dinobolus4 sites
- Hibbertia4 sites
- Hormotoma gigantea4 sites
- Ptychopleurella lamellosa4 sites
- Arjamannia sybellina3 sites
- Clathrospira subconica3 sites
- Cyclonema thalia3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
- Liospira americana3 sites
- Lytospira nitida3 sites
- Paupospira moorei3 sites
- Schuchertoceras3 sites
- Sinuites bilobatus3 sites
- Alaskadiscus giganteus2 sites
- Cyrtospira notata2 sites
- Hindella umbonata2 sites
- Paupospira circe2 sites
- Paupospira manitouliensis2 sites
- Phragmolites desideratus2 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Brachytomaria papillosa, 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
3 references- Anticosti Island, Québec4
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)3
- Geology of Anticosti Island3
Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Brachytomaria papillosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Brachytomaria papillosa 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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What may have been alongside itBrachytomaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1857)