Brachidontes (Brachidontes)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachidontesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachidontes
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Brachidontes
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachidontes
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 128 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 128 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 128 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 128 occurrencesEocene — about 82 of 128 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 128 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 128 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 128 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 128 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 16 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 27 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 31 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

128 occurrences of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

128 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

34 formations

Meganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 119.24°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.90°S, 69.53°WRoca — 35.68°S, 69.67°WRoca — 34.73°S, 69.65°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WRoca — 36.20°S, 69.50°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.23°N, 123.10°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.21°N, 123.18°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.92°N, 119.25°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.02°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.15°WMission Valley — 32.78°N, 117.14°WSantiago — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°WJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WRaging River — 47.50°N, 121.91°WRaging River — 47.42°N, 121.97°WBushnell Rock — 43.31°N, 123.12°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WFlournoy — 43.30°N, 123.11°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.92°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WSilverado — 33.87°N, 117.71°WFHS — 30.12°N, 35.38°EFHS — 29.81°N, 35.72°ETukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WTyee — 43.55°N, 124.16°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°W

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The named rock units Brachidontes (Brachidontes) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachidontes (Brachidontes) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachidontes (Brachidontes) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Brachidontes (Brachidontes), 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

40 references

Each of the 128 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. 28 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.

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No picture of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) 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 Brachidontes (Brachidontes), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) 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 itBrachidontes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840