Brachyopoidea

Brachyopoidea is a superfamily of temnospondyls that lived during the Mesozoic. It contains the families Brachyopidae and Chigutisauridae. The earliest records of brachyopids are from the Lower Triassic in Australia. The latest-surviving member of the superfamily is the chigutisaurid Koolasuchus from the Early Cretaceous of Australia.

Brachyopoidea

Ghedoghedo · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StereospondyliPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 137 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 126 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 21 of 126 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 51 of 126 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 27 of 126 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 126 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 126 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 126 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 126 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 126 occurrences263–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–246 Mya — about 24 occurrences246–241 Mya — about 24 occurrences241–235 Mya — about 26 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 5 occurrences230–224 Mya — about 4 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 3 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 3 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 6 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 4 occurrences197–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250.8 Mya113.2 Mya263 Mya97 Mya

126 occurrences of Brachyopoidea on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

126 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

47 formations

Erfurt — 49.07°N, 9.76°EErfurt — 49.00°N, 9.77°EErfurt — 49.08°N, 9.89°EErfurt — 49.18°N, 9.78°EErfurt — 50.83°N, 10.93°EErfurt — 49.21°N, 9.68°EErfurt — 50.88°N, 10.95°EErfurt — 50.38°N, 10.65°EDonguz — 51.42°N, 55.43°EDonguz — 51.55°N, 55.36°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 52.41°N, 55.65°EDonguz — 52.53°N, 53.50°EDonguz — 51.46°N, 55.18°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°EBalabansai — 41.33°N, 72.25°EBalabansai — 41.33°N, 72.11°EBalabansai — 40.90°N, 73.49°E"Wonthaggi" — 38.54°S, 145.40°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.88°S, 26.22°EBurgersdorp — 30.77°S, 26.28°EBurgersdorp — 28.18°S, 27.96°EBurgersdorp — 30.42°S, 26.27°EBurgersdorp — 31.00°S, 26.33°EElliot — 29.13°S, 27.33°EElliot — 30.72°S, 27.22°EElliot — 28.52°S, 28.52°EKnocklofty — 42.88°S, 147.30°EKnocklofty — 42.79°S, 147.28°EKnocklofty — 43.08°S, 147.28°EKnocklofty — 42.80°S, 147.52°EKnocklofty — 42.96°S, 147.70°EArcadia — 23.64°S, 148.90°EArcadia — 24.83°S, 148.00°EArcadia — 25.18°S, 148.52°ETrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°EFleming Fjord — 71.37°N, 22.56°WFleming Fjord — 71.25°N, 22.53°WFleming Fjord — 71.83°N, 23.62°WMoenkopi — 34.92°N, 110.26°WMoenkopi — 35.87°N, 111.49°WCacheuta — 32.95°S, 69.18°WCacheuta — 32.93°S, 69.02°WCacheuta — 33.08°S, 69.11°WQigu — 43.55°N, 87.26°EQigu — 43.79°N, 87.55°EBukobay — 52.41°N, 55.65°EFremouw — 85.05°S, 172.50°EFremouw — 84.28°S, 164.35°EAshfield Shale — 33.97°S, 151.08°EAshfield Shale — 33.92°S, 151.18°EBlina Shale — 17.86°S, 124.36°EMaleri — 19.25°N, 79.50°EWeser — 48.77°N, 9.20°EShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EToutunhe — 43.55°N, 87.26°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EMoskovoretskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°EEvergreen — 25.82°S, 150.30°E

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The named rock units Brachyopoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyopoidea and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Brachyopoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Brachyopoidea, 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

59 references

Each of the 126 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. 47 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 content1

Picture of Brachyopoidea

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachyopoidea 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.

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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What may have been alongside itStereospondyli through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1885