Brevipelta chouberti

Brevipelta chouberti

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrevipeltaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Obolellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Obolellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Obolellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521.5 Mya515.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Brevipelta chouberti 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

6 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

1 formation

Amouslek — 30.40°N, 8.83°WAmouslek — 30.40°N, 8.70°WAmouslek — 29.62°N, 9.47°W

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The named rock units Brevipelta chouberti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Brevipelta chouberti and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Brevipelta chouberti and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Brevipelta chouberti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 6 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 Brevipelta chouberti

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brevipelta chouberti 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 itBrevipelta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 1994