Brotiopsis
No picture of Brotiopsis 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 Brotiopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThiaridaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Thiaridae
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Brotiopsis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Sengoku Formation · Kanmon Group1
- First Formation · Wakino Group1
- Third Formation · Wakino Group1
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The named rock units Brotiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brotiopsis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Brotiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Adocus1 site
- Aokiichthys1 site
- Aokiichthys changae1 site
- Aokiichthys otai1 site
- Aokiichthys praedorsalis1 site
- Aokiichthys toriyamai1 site
- Aokiichthys uyenoi1 site
- Chuhsiungichthys1 site
- Chuhsiungichthys yanagidai1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Gonrynchiformes indet.1 site
- Lepidotes macropterus1 site
- Nakamuranaia1 site
- Nipponamia satoi1 site
- Paraleptolepis elegans1 site
- Paraleptolepis kikuchii1 site
- Plicatounio naktongensis1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Viviparus1 site
- Wakinoichthys aokii1 site
- Wakinoichthys robustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brotiopsis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Early Cretaceous freshwater fish fauna in Kyushu, Japan2
- A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, northern Kyushu1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Brotiopsis 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 Brotiopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brotiopsis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThiaridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Suzuki 1943