Brachaucheninae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThalassophoneaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pliosauroidea

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 22 occurrencesLate Cretaceous134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya85.7 Mya134 Mya83 Mya

22 occurrences of Brachaucheninae on record, most of them in the Late 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

22 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

11 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.91°N, 98.53°WPaja — 5.63°N, 73.57°WPaja — 5.65°N, 73.56°WPaja — 5.57°N, 73.53°WWallumbilla — 20.22°S, 143.13°EWallumbilla — 30.85°S, 143.08°EToolebuc — 20.84°S, 144.20°EToolebuc — 20.73°S, 143.14°ETropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.66°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WEagle Ford — 30.25°N, 97.75°WCarlile Shale — 39.05°N, 99.02°WMelovatskaya — 50.63°N, 45.73°EAkrabou — 31.85°N, 4.93°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°W

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The named rock units Brachaucheninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachaucheninae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Brachaucheninae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Brachaucheninae, 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

20 references

Each of the 22 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. 8 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Brachaucheninae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Brachaucheninae 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 itThalassophonea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williston 1925)