Burmeisterella

Burmeisterella is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It was described by Reed in 1918.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomalonotidaePBDB
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 least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya – 410.62 Mya420.1 Mya399 Mya

2 occurrences of Burmeisterella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

Zeimlet — 29.52°N, 2.20°WNeichnerberg — 50.04°N, 6.85°E

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

Burmeisterella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Burmeisterella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Burmeisterella, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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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What may have been alongside itHomalonotidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1918