Brachymycterus curculionoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachymycterusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Brachymycterus curculionoides on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Brachymycterus curculionoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachymycterus curculionoides and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Brachymycterus curculionoides and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Chironomus2 sites
- Dilophus krantzii2 sites
- Entiminae2 sites
- Plecia hypogaea2 sites
- Plecia luctuosa2 sites
- Plecia macrocephala2 sites
- Plecia pinguis2 sites
- Plecia winnertzi2 sites
- Protomyia stygia2 sites
- Acalles icarus1 site
- Aeschna dido1 site
- Agabus reductus1 site
- Agrilus baueri1 site
- Anisops deichmuelleri1 site
- Anisoptera1 site
- Anomala primigenia1 site
- Anomala thetis1 site
- Anomala tumulata1 site
- Anthophagus giebeli1 site
- Anthophorini1 site
- Aphodius krantzi1 site
- Apidae1 site
- Apionidae1 site
- Apioninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachymycterus curculionoides, 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
3 references- Käfer und Polypen aus der Braunkohle des Siebengebirges3
- Tertiary weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), identified from collections of the Senckenberg Museum1
- Beiträge zur kenntnis fossiler insekten aus dem braunkohlengebirge von Rott am Siebengebierge1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Brachymycterus curculionoides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Brachymycterus curculionoides 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 itBrachymycterus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Heyden and von Heyden 1866