Brachyphyllum

Searched as Brachyphyllum expansum typica. The Paleobiology Database treats Brachyphyllum as the accepted name.

Brachyphyllum is a form genus of fossil coniferous plant foliage. Plants of the genus have been variously assigned to several different conifer groups including Araucariaceae and Cheirolepidiaceae. They are known from around the globe from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Cretaceous periods.

Brachyphyllum

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

Time the record covers

At most 61 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence163–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163 Mya99 Mya

1 occurrence of Brachyphyllum on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

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

Jabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°E

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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.

Brachyphyllum and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Brachyphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

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

1 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

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 and MorphoSource were 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 itAraucariaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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