Brachyphyllum

Brachyphyllum

the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
AraucariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 280 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Devonian — about 0 of 420 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 420 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 420 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 420 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 420 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 14 of 420 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 35 of 420 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 141 of 420 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 151 of 420 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 47 of 420 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 420 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 420 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 420 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 420 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 420 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 420 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 420 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 5 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–232 Mya — about 4 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 4 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 4 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 15 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 13 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 47 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 121 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 113 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 30 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 14 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 17 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence283.3 Mya2.58 Mya366 Mya0 Mya

420 occurrences of Brachyphyllum on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

420 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

147 formations

Saltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WBearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EJabalpur — 23.77°N, 81.47°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WRajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 24.52°N, 87.57°EMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 37.32°N, 109.38°WMorrison — 42.63°N, 105.44°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 106.01°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WScalby — 54.25°N, 0.33°WLengshuiwu — 28.40°N, 117.40°ELengshuiwu — 25.20°N, 115.40°ELengshuiwu — 27.60°N, 116.60°ELengshuiwu — 28.00°N, 117.00°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EHermit Shale — 36.07°N, 112.13°WHermit Shale — 36.00°N, 112.00°WEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WBlack Creek — 35.38°N, 77.99°WBlack Creek — 35.35°N, 78.02°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBantou — 27.80°N, 118.00°EBantou — 26.00°N, 117.40°EBantou — 26.30°N, 116.70°EParsora — 24.70°N, 87.40°EKurnub — 29.10°N, 33.60°ERintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°EChinle — 37.70°N, 110.40°WChinle — 38.70°N, 110.20°WChinle — 36.10°N, 106.20°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WMuoshishan — 28.20°N, 115.90°EMuoshishan — 27.70°N, 120.10°EMuoshishan — 28.60°N, 119.30°ELower Gring Suite — 38.50°N, 70.20°ELower Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.30°EKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EAbo — 35.08°N, 106.65°WAbo — 34.40°N, 106.75°WEller Beck — 54.30°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Brachyphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 123 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 144 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyphyllum and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Brachyphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

875 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 307 sites for Brachyphyllum, and this reads 240 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

158 references

Each of the 420 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. 146 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 content2

Picture of Brachyphyllum

Credit
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itAraucariaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828