Burnhamia

No picture of Burnhamia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Burnhamia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MobulidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 77 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 83 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya23.04 Mya62.6 Mya15.1 Mya

83 occurrences of Burnhamia 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

83 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

31 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.01°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°EGehannam — 29.31°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 29.99°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WLondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.28°ELondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ETallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WCouche I — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche I — 32.72°N, 6.78°EBrussel Sand — 50.85°N, 4.43°ESables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°ETavda — 55.34°N, 65.35°ETavda — 56.70°N, 63.15°ERishtan — 41.65°N, 64.69°ETrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WTaiba — 15.04°N, 16.82°WFishburne — 33.28°N, 79.64°WKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°E

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The named rock units Burnhamia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Burnhamia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Burnhamia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

833 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Burnhamia, 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

33 references

Each of the 83 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. 21 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 content0

No picture of Burnhamia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Burnhamia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1976