Branchiopoda

Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans. It comprises fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, Diplostraca, Notostraca, the Devonian Lepidocaris and possibly the Cambrian Rehbachiella. They are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on plankton and detritus.

Branchiopoda

Hans Hillewaert Rise0011 Franco Folini Public Library of Science · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
branchiopodPBDB
Sits inside
AthalassocaridaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 515 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 3 of 381 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 381 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 381 occurrencesDevonian — about 14 of 381 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 65 of 381 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 57 of 381 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 33 of 381 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 43 of 381 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 65 of 381 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 381 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 381 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 381 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 381 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 381 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 381 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 381 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 381 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 381 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 381 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 381 occurrences531–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–407 Mya — about 5 occurrences407–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–372 Mya — about 4 occurrences372–354 Mya — about 4 occurrences354–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–319 Mya — about 7 occurrences319–301 Mya — about 50 occurrences301–283 Mya — about 41 occurrences283–266 Mya — about 9 occurrences266–248 Mya — about 46 occurrences248–230 Mya — about 66 occurrences230–213 Mya — about 30 occurrences213–195 Mya — about 18 occurrences195–177 Mya — about 4 occurrences177–159 Mya — about 7 occurrences159–142 Mya — about 24 occurrences142–124 Mya — about 8 occurrences124–106 Mya — about 14 occurrences106–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–18 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences516 Mya129 ka531 Mya0 Mya

381 occurrences of Branchiopoda on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

381 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

122 formations

Grès à Voltzia — 48.58°N, 7.49°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 49.15°N, 6.86°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.69°N, 7.38°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WYekchan — 61.88°N, 145.45°EYekchan — 61.90°N, 144.93°EWellington — 36.35°N, 97.43°WWellington — 36.35°N, 97.30°WWellington — 37.96°N, 97.32°WWellington — 37.90°N, 97.35°WWellington — 38.13°N, 97.21°WWellington — 38.04°N, 97.21°WWellington — 37.87°N, 97.24°WWellington — 37.79°N, 97.28°WOttweiler Schichten — 49.52°N, 7.48°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.28°N, 6.79°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.43°N, 7.34°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.32°N, 6.91°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.24°N, 6.75°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.42°N, 7.24°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.35°N, 7.03°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.37°N, 7.11°EMorrison — 38.45°N, 107.40°WMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 37.53°N, 103.68°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WMorrison — 45.22°N, 108.83°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 38.85°N, 108.46°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WDe Geerdalen — 77.62°N, 14.98°EDe Geerdalen — 78.00°N, 21.87°EDe Geerdalen — 78.10°N, 13.88°EHassberge — 50.00°N, 10.68°EHassberge — 49.91°N, 10.52°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.24°N, 6.99°EIsheevo — 55.78°N, 48.93°EGrabfeld — 49.70°N, 10.43°EGrabfeld — 49.88°N, 10.43°EGrabfeld — 50.27°N, 10.42°ELockatong — 40.81°N, 74.02°WLockatong — 40.42°N, 75.06°WYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.90°EYixian — 41.63°N, 121.65°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 42.20°N, 116.48°EBrejo Santo — 7.25°S, 39.12°WBrejo Santo — 7.50°S, 39.00°WBrejo Santo — 7.17°S, 39.31°WStuttgart — 49.20°N, 9.30°EKayitou — 25.83°N, 104.38°EKayitou — 26.73°N, 104.44°EShar Teg — 44.12°N, 95.82°ETuckahoe — 37.52°N, 77.63°WTuckahoe — 37.60°N, 77.72°WVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.40°EVrchlabi — 50.62°N, 15.60°EChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 36.33°N, 106.47°WChinle — 38.15°N, 109.20°WTiaojishan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.99°ETiaojishan — 40.92°N, 119.65°EElliot — 29.13°S, 27.33°EPaluxy — 32.88°N, 97.50°WPaluxy — 33.50°N, 97.50°WPaluxy — 33.12°N, 97.57°W

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The named rock units Branchiopoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 98 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Branchiopoda and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Branchiopoda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 272 sites for Branchiopoda, 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

150 references

Each of the 381 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. 138 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 Branchiopoda

Credit
Hans Hillewaert Rise0011 Franco Folini Public Library of Science
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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No 3D scan of Branchiopoda 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itAthalassocarida through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1817