Brachyprion

Brachyprion Shaler, 1865, a relative of Brachyprion — not Brachyprion itself

Not Brachyprion. This is Brachyprion Shaler, 1865, a relative — both are Stropheodontidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
LeptostrophiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 310 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 271 of 310 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 35 of 310 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 37 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 108 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 33 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 33 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 18 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 8 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 5 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 9 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 5 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 7 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 9 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 9 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 7 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443.1 Mya393.47 Mya451 Mya387 Mya

310 occurrences of Brachyprion on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

310 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

49 formations

Jupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.42°N, 63.50°WJupiter — 49.56°N, 63.35°WJupiter — 49.45°N, 63.43°WJupiter — 49.19°N, 62.90°WJupiter — 49.18°N, 62.78°WJupiter — 49.17°N, 61.71°WJupiter — 49.31°N, 63.22°WJupiter — 49.12°N, 61.68°WJupiter — 49.12°N, 62.46°WJupiter — 49.10°N, 62.39°WJupiter — 49.55°N, 63.34°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.32°WJupiter — 49.24°N, 62.24°WJupiter — 49.08°N, 62.20°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 62.57°WJupiter — 49.14°N, 62.65°WJupiter — 49.20°N, 61.78°WJupiter — 49.49°N, 63.55°WJupiter — 49.51°N, 62.15°WJupiter — 49.35°N, 63.42°WGun River — 49.58°N, 63.76°WGun River — 49.53°N, 63.66°WGun River — 49.21°N, 61.75°WGun River — 49.21°N, 61.73°WGun River — 49.32°N, 62.42°WGun River — 49.27°N, 61.94°WGun River — 49.27°N, 62.14°WGun River — 49.26°N, 62.16°WGun River — 49.24°N, 62.19°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.46°WGun River — 49.54°N, 63.54°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.67°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHaragan — 34.48°N, 96.50°WMerrimack — 49.25°N, 61.80°WMerrimack — 49.28°N, 62.04°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WStuart Bay — 76.00°N, 98.00°WStuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.37°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 52.50°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.75°N, 98.58°WWindmill Limestone — 38.87°N, 117.92°WWindmill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WDevon Island — 76.28°N, 92.70°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 75.02°N, 96.40°WLower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°ELower Visby — 57.66°N, 18.31°EJaagarahu — 58.45°N, 22.00°EJaagarahu — 58.46°N, 22.11°EJaagarahu — 58.41°N, 21.98°ELower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.51°N, 18.11°EDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WBird Fiord — 77.63°N, 83.49°WBird Fiord — 77.49°N, 83.91°WRoss — 36.00°N, 88.00°WPagegiai — 55.21°N, 22.36°EPagegiai — 55.57°N, 21.45°ENeahga Shale — 36.68°N, 83.13°WLochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°E

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The named rock units Brachyprion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyprion and its relatives

Silurian

Where Brachyprion and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

889 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Brachyprion, 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

42 references

Each of the 310 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. 30 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 Brachyprion Shaler, 1865

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachyprion 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shaler 1865)