Eobronteus

Eobronteus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScutelluinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 26 of 29 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 29 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461.1 Mya443.1 Mya472 Mya437.9 Mya

29 occurrences of Eobronteus 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

29 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

17 formations

Boda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EBoda Limestone — 61.33°N, 14.55°EBoda Limestone — 61.12°N, 15.16°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EMingan — 50.21°N, 63.62°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.75°WKimmswick limestone — 39.05°N, 90.66°WKimmswick limestone — 38.32°N, 90.38°WOnny Shale — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMalongulli — 33.00°S, 148.00°EGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.00°WSandaogou — 35.00°N, 107.00°EVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WHusbergøya — 59.28°N, 10.33°ELangåra — 59.28°N, 10.33°EBønsnes — 60.00°N, 9.97°EHerøya — 59.11°N, 9.65°EDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WCraighead — 55.27°N, 4.78°WSimard — 48.47°N, 71.05°WConfinis Flags — 55.19°N, 4.75°W

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The named rock units Eobronteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eobronteus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eobronteus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

703 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Eobronteus, 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

16 references

Each of the 29 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Eobronteus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Reed 1928