Brachthelia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AplosmiliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–149 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya113.2 Mya167 Mya99 Mya

16 occurrences of Brachthelia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

16 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

6 formations

Hanifa — 25.25°N, 46.00°EHanifa — 24.92°N, 46.25°EAntalo — 13.62°N, 39.44°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°E

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The named rock units Brachthelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachthelia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Brachthelia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Brachthelia, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Brachthelia 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 itAplosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beauvais and Beauvais 1975