Broeggerolithus broeggeri

No picture of Broeggerolithus broeggeri 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 broeggeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 455 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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12 occurrences of Broeggerolithus broeggeri 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

12 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

6 formations

Cwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt Ddu — 52.92°N, 3.60°WPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WGlyn Gower Siltstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°WNant Hir Mudstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°W

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

Broeggerolithus broeggeri and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Broeggerolithus broeggeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Broeggerolithus broeggeri, 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

2 references

Each of the 12 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

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No picture of Broeggerolithus broeggeri 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 broeggeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Broeggerolithus broeggeri 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 itBroeggerolithus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bancroft 1929)