Brachypareion insperatum
No picture of Brachypareion insperatum 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 Brachypareion insperatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachypareionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Brachypareion insperatum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Brachypareion insperatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachypareion insperatum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Brachypareion insperatum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Akanichthys shevtshenkoi2 sites
- Akanolepis decernans2 sites
- Neuburgichthys mariae2 sites
- Paradrydenius tinterisi2 sites
- Paragonatodus magnificus2 sites
- Akanichthys minusculus1 site
- Akanolepis1 site
- Angaropteridium cardiopteroides1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Kenderlichthys paluster1 site
- Kenderlichthys tuberculatus1 site
- Neuropteris1 site
- Paragondwanidium1 site
- Rufloria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brachypareion insperatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Brachypareion insperatum 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 Brachypareion insperatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachypareion insperatum 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 itBrachypareion through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kazantseva-Selezneva 1980