Burnetiella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DokimokephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dokimokephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
37 occurrences of Burnetiella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
37 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
10 formations
- Gatesburg Formation16
- Wilberns Formation6
- Davis Formation5
- Snowy Range Formation2
- Open Door Formation2
- Deadwood Formation1
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The named rock units Burnetiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Burnetiella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Burnetiella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Cliffia lataegenae21 sites
- Elvinia roemeri19 sites
- Camaraspis convexus16 sites
- Deckera completa15 sites
- Dellea15 sites
- Irvingella major9 sites
- Drabia acroccipita8 sites
- Deadwoodia duris7 sites
- Pterocephalia6 sites
- Buttsia drabensis5 sites
- Drabia5 sites
- Drabia typica5 sites
- Housia vacuna5 sites
- Linnarssonella5 sites
- Pinctus latus5 sites
- Dellea wilbernsensis4 sites
- Dokimocephalus intermedius4 sites
- Bynumina terrenda3 sites
- Elvinia3 sites
- Housia3 sites
- Irvingella3 sites
- Kindbladia wichitaensis3 sites
- Kyphocephalus3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Burnetiella, 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
11 references- High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia13
- The trilobite fauna of the Elvina zone in the Basal Wilberns limestone of Texas6
- Franconian (Upper Cambrian) trilobite faunas from the Elvins Group of Southeast Missouri5
- New trilobite taxa from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the central Appalachians3
- Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Part 13
- Faunas and stratigraphy of the Snowy Range formation (Upper Cambrian) in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming2
- Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective1
- Upper Steptoean (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the McKay Group of southeastern British Columbia, Canada1
- Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas1
- Stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Subsurface Sequence in Williston Basin1
- Cambrian strata of Wisconsin1
Each of the 37 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 content1
Picture of Burnetiella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Burnetiella 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 itDokimokephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochmann 1958