Bronnothyris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegathyrididaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 12.8 Mya.
10 occurrences of Bronnothyris on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Alzey Formation · Selztal Group1
- Dnieper Beds Formation1
- Lajta Limestone Formation1
- Kassel Formation1
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The named rock units Bronnothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bronnothyris and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bronnothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Megathiris detruncata7 sites
- Argyrotheca bitnerae5 sites
- Argyrotheca megalocephala4 sites
- Discinisca fallens4 sites
- Joania crenata4 sites
- Lacazella mediterranea4 sites
- Megerlia truncata4 sites
- Platidia4 sites
- Pliothyrina grandis4 sites
- Terebratulina tenuistriata4 sites
- Argyrotheca lunula3 sites
- Discradisca2 sites
- Acasta vesiculosa1 site
- Acrothoracica1 site
- Aequipecten macrotis1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Aphelesia winebergeri1 site
- Argyrotheca megapora1 site
- Austrohinnites1 site
- Balanidae1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata1 site
- Cellaria1 site
- Celleporaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Bronnothyris, 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
7 references- Early Oligocene brachiopods from the rocky-shore deposits at Mammendorf, central Germany4
- Seagrass-associated Middle Miocene brachiopods from the Central Paratethys, with description of a new species of Bronnothyris1
- Upper Oligocene brachiopods from NW Germany, with description of a new Platidiinae genus, Germanoplatidia n. gen1
- Late Eocene (Priabonian) brachiopod fauna from Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine1
- First record of the genus Bronnothyris (Brachiopoda: Megathyrididae) from the Oligocene of the Mainz Basin (Germany)1
- The Upper Burdigalian (Ottnangian) brachiopod fauna from the northern coast of the Upper Marine Molasse Sea in Bavaria, southern Germany1
- A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Bronnothyris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bronnothyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bronnothyris 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMegathyrididae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.