Brachiodontes

Brachiodontes, a relative of Brachiodontes — not Brachiodontes itself

Not Brachiodontes. This is Brachiodontes, a relative — both are Mytilidae.

Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 66 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 66 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 66 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 66 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 66 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

66 occurrences of Brachiodontes 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

66 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

18 formations

Coaledo — 43.34°N, 124.38°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WFlournoy — 43.01°N, 123.91°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.24°N, 123.42°WCabacos — 39.60°N, 8.78°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WTyee — 43.74°N, 123.19°WTyee — 43.31°N, 123.08°WTyee — 42.99°N, 123.87°WChickasawhay — 31.01°N, 86.54°WChickasawhay — 31.51°N, 87.93°WChickasawhay — 31.69°N, 88.65°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WColdwater — 34.52°N, 119.24°WColdwater — 34.59°N, 119.21°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°EDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WTamala — 28.87°S, 114.63°EKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.32°WDelmar — 32.92°N, 117.26°WCozy Dell — 34.56°N, 119.17°W

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The named rock units Brachiodontes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachiodontes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachiodontes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

636 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Brachiodontes, 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

14 references

Each of the 66 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. 2 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 Brachiodontes

Source
GBIF
Credit
Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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What may have been alongside itMytilidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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