Brachycrus laticeps

Brachycrus laticeps

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachycrusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

36 occurrences of Brachycrus laticeps on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

36 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

9 formations

Barstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBopesta — 35.19°N, 118.28°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WCarlin — 40.70°N, 116.10°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WBox Butte — 42.80°N, 103.10°W

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The named rock units Brachycrus laticeps 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.

Brachycrus laticeps and its relatives

Miocene

Where Brachycrus laticeps and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Brachycrus laticeps, 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

13 references

Each of the 36 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. 1 further reference is 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

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Picture of Brachycrus laticeps

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No 3D scan of Brachycrus laticeps 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. (Douglass 1900)