Brongniartella minor
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrongniartellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Homalonotidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 454 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Brongniartella minor 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
13 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
7 formations
- Cwm Rhiwarth Formation5
- Allt Ddu Formation · Lower Bala Group2
- Gelli-grîn Formation · Lower Bala Group2
- Swch Gorge Tuff Formation1
- Allt-Ddu Mudstones Formation · Allt-Ddu Group1
- Glyn Gower Siltstones Formation · Lower Bala Group1
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The named rock units Brongniartella minor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brongniartella minor and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Brongniartella minor and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Broeggerolithus broeggeri9 sites
- Bicuspina8 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata8 sites
- Howellites7 sites
- Reuschella horderleyensis7 sites
- Tallinnella7 sites
- Broeggerolithus6 sites
- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni6 sites
- Crinoidea6 sites
- Cyrtolites6 sites
- Dalmanella6 sites
- Leptaena6 sites
- Orthoceras6 sites
- Sowerbyella6 sites
- <isotelinid>5 sites
- Bryozoa5 sites
- Dinorthis berwynensis5 sites
- Flexicalymene caractaci5 sites
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi5 sites
- Kloucekia apiculata5 sites
- Leptaena ventricosa5 sites
- Lophospira5 sites
- Paracraniops5 sites
- Rostricellula5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Brongniartella minor, 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
4 references- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales6
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV5
- Mid-Caradoc magmatism in central Llyn, rhyolite petrogenesis, and the evolution of the Snowdonia volcanic corridor in NW Wales1
- The Caradoc faunal associations of the area between Bala and Dines, North Wales1
Each of the 13 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 Brongniartella minor 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 Brongniartella minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brongniartella minor 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 itBrongniartella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1852)