Briscoia sinclairensis

Briscoia sinclairensis

J. Mertie · 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
BriscoiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dikelocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 483.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489.4 Mya482.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Briscoia sinclairensis 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

3 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

2 formations

Mons — 50.60°N, 116.05°WMons — 50.78°N, 116.05°WSurvey Peak — 51.92°N, 116.91°W

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

Briscoia sinclairensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Briscoia sinclairensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Briscoia sinclairensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Briscoia sinclairensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
J. Mertie
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Briscoia sinclairensis 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 itBriscoia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1924