Brachymethoca gigantea
No picture of Brachymethoca gigantea 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 Brachymethoca gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachymethocaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Brachymethoca gigantea 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Brachymethoca gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachymethoca gigantea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Brachymethoca gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Abia maculosa1 site
- Adoretus recticlypeus1 site
- Aeshna ignivora1 site
- Aestilocusta graminea1 site
- Algon spatiosus1 site
- Allecula austriaca1 site
- Allodahlia shanwangensis1 site
- Anechura japonica1 site
- Anisodactylus giganteus1 site
- Anomala eversa1 site
- Apanechura hydrophila1 site
- Apanechura ooidea1 site
- Aphaena lithoecia1 site
- Apis (Synapis) miocenica1 site
- Areoleta quadrivenosa1 site
- Bibio brachypodus1 site
- Bibio brunneifemus1 site
- Bibio cratopodus1 site
- Bibio eximius1 site
- Bibio longineurus1 site
- Bibio peraffinis1 site
- Bibio shanwangensis1 site
- Bibio tranopterus1 site
- Bibio varineurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Brachymethoca gigantea, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Brachymethoca gigantea 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 Brachymethoca gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachymethoca gigantea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBrachymethoca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1989