Brachauchenius

Brachauchenius

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachaucheninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Length
9 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121.4 Mya93.9 Mya126.5 Mya89.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Brachauchenius 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

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

6 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WTropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.66°WPaja — 5.63°N, 73.57°WEagle Ford — 30.25°N, 97.75°WAkrabou — 31.85°N, 4.93°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°W

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The named rock units Brachauchenius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachauchenius and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Brachauchenius, 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

11 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. 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 content1

Picture of Brachauchenius

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Brachauchenius 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 itBrachaucheninae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williston 1903