Bradgatia linfordensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BradgatiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Bradgatia linfordensis on record. 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
24 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Mistaken Point Formation · Conception Group9
- Trepassey Formation · St John's Group6
- Fermeuse Formation · St John's Group4
- Bradgate Formation · Maplewood Group4
- Briscal Formation · Conception Group1
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The named rock units Bradgatia linfordensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Charnia masoni9 sites
- Charniodiscus8 sites
- Primocandelabrum7 sites
- Aspidella6 sites
- Aspidella terranovica6 sites
- Pectinifrons abyssalis6 sites
- Fractofusus misrai5 sites
- Ivesheadia lobata5 sites
- Vinlandia antecedens5 sites
- Charnia4 sites
- Hadrynichorde catalinensis4 sites
- Beothukis mistakensis3 sites
- Charniodiscus procerus3 sites
- Fractofusus andersoni3 sites
- Hiemalora stellaris3 sites
- Arborea arborea2 sites
- Arborea spinosa2 sites
- Avalofractus abaculus2 sites
- Hadrynichorde2 sites
- Hadryniscala avalonica2 sites
- Hapsidophyllas flexibilis2 sites
- Parviscopa bonavistensis2 sites
- Plumeropriscum hofmanni2 sites
- Primocandelabrum hiemaloranum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Bradgatia linfordensis, 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
9 references- Ediacaran biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada8
- Taphonomy and ontogeny of a multibranched Ediacaran fossil: Bradgatia from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland7
- Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota2
- Ediacaran fossils from the Precambrian (Charnian Supergroup) of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England2
- A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK1
- A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland1
- A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland1
- A rich Ediacaran assemblage from eastern Avalonia: Evidence of early widespread diversity in the deep ocean1
- Paleoenvironmental and basin analysis of the late Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) upper Conception and St. John's groups, west Conception Bay, Newfoundland1
Each of the 24 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 Bradgatia linfordensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bradgatia linfordensis 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 itBradgatia through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boynton and Ford 1995