Brosmophycis elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrosmophycisPBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

11 occurrences of Brosmophycis elegans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

11 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

5 formations

Earnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WAalter — 50.79°N, 2.78°E

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The named rock units Brosmophycis elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brosmophycis elegans and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brosmophycis elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Brosmophycis elegans, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Brosmophycis elegans 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 Brosmophycis elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brosmophycis elegans 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 itBrosmophycis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frost 1934)