Brachycarcharias

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontaspididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 161 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 156 of 161 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 161 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 161 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 11 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 11 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 11 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 17 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 17 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 13 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya37.71 Mya62.4 Mya22.3 Mya

161 occurrences of Brachycarcharias on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

161 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

57 formations

La Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.68°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WGosport Sand — 31.76°N, 88.10°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WGehannam — 29.32°N, 30.14°EGehannam — 29.32°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.88°N, 1.30°WLondon Clay — 50.80°N, 1.67°WLondon Clay — 51.07°N, 1.74°WMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.39°N, 88.69°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°EBirket Qarun — 29.50°N, 30.56°EBirket Qarun — 29.45°N, 30.36°EDammam — 25.22°N, 50.83°EDammam — 24.55°N, 51.07°EDammam — 25.43°N, 50.80°ELisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.31°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.40°N, 41.76°EOsinovaya — 48.46°N, 41.83°EMidawara — 28.86°N, 30.62°EMidawara — 28.83°N, 30.50°EMidawara — 29.00°N, 30.00°ESamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WAridal — 25.09°N, 13.89°WObservatory — 29.79°N, 31.42°EMidra Shale — 25.46°N, 50.81°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WTuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EWaipara Greensand — 43.05°S, 172.62°EWaipara Greensand — 43.12°S, 172.48°ETaiba — 15.04°N, 16.82°WHarudi — 23.49°N, 68.75°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.67°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°E

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The named rock units Brachycarcharias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachycarcharias and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachycarcharias and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Brachycarcharias, 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

56 references

Each of the 161 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. 44 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Brachycarcharias 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Nolf 2005