Brama
Brama is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Bramidae, the pomfrets. The genus currently comprises eight species.
The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States", by George Brown Goode (1887). · 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
- BramidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Brama on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Pliocene79%
- Pleistocene22%
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.
Brama and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Brama and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Alutera2 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Arnoglossus laterna2 sites
- Belone2 sites
- Boops2 sites
- Bothus2 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi2 sites
- Capros aper2 sites
- Centriscus2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis2 sites
- Conger2 sites
- Cubiceps2 sites
- Dactylopterus2 sites
- Engraulis2 sites
- Gadella2 sites
- Gadiculus2 sites
- Hemiramphus2 sites
- Hygophum2 sites
- Hyporhamphus2 sites
- Lampanyctus2 sites
- Lepidopus2 sites
- Lestidiops2 sites
- Lophius budegassa2 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brama, 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
2 references- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy1
Each 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. 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 Brama
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States", by George Brown Goode (1887).
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Brama brama · UF:Fish:167060
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBramidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walbaum 1792