Broeggerolithus

Broeggerolithus is a genus of the family Trinucleidae in the Ordovician periods. It is reported only from Northern Europe.

No picture of Broeggerolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Broeggerolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptolithinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

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48 occurrences of Broeggerolithus 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

48 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

19 formations

Cwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt Ddu — 52.92°N, 3.60°WGelli-grîn — 52.92°N, 3.60°WGelli-grîn — 52.93°N, 4.03°WNakholmen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ENakholmen — 59.89°N, 10.70°EPen-y-garnedd — 53.00°N, 3.00°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WNod Glas — 53.00°N, 4.00°WCampile — 53.42°N, 7.17°WNant Hir Mudstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°WNorderhov — 59.95°N, 10.66°EPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt-Ddu Mudstones — 53.00°N, 4.00°WCheney Longville — 52.00°N, 3.00°WGrange Allen — 53.50°N, 7.17°WFuruberget — 60.33°N, 10.53°ENakkholmen — 60.13°N, 10.28°EGlyn Gower Siltstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°WDwyfach — 52.94°N, 4.29°W

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The named rock units Broeggerolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Broeggerolithus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Broeggerolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Broeggerolithus, 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

10 references

Each of the 48 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 content0

No picture of Broeggerolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Broeggerolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Broeggerolithus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamont 1935