Brachylaena hutchinsii

Brachylaena is a genus of flowering plants in the aster, or composite, family, Asteraceae or Compositae. Several are endemic to Madagascar, and the others are distributed in mainland Africa, especially the southern regions.

A picture published with the record for Brachylaena hutchinsii. What it shows has not been checked.

Abu Shawka · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.5–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.3–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.0–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.5 Mya1.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Brachylaena hutchinsii on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2 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

2 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°E

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The named rock units Brachylaena hutchinsii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Brachylaena hutchinsii and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Brachylaena hutchinsii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brachylaena hutchinsii, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Brachylaena hutchinsii

Credit
Abu Shawka
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachylaena hutchinsii 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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.