Brachianodon westorum
No picture of Brachianodon westorum 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 Brachianodon westorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachianodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Brachianodon westorum 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Brachianodon westorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachianodon westorum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brachianodon westorum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Hyrachyus6 sites
- Omomys carteri6 sites
- Washakius insignis5 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus4 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus4 sites
- Smilodectes mcgrewi4 sites
- Thisbemys corrugatus4 sites
- Homacodontidae3 sites
- Metacheiromys3 sites
- Microsyops elegans3 sites
- Notharctus robinsoni3 sites
- Orohippus pumilus3 sites
- Tetrapassalus3 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
- Palaeosyops fontinalis2 sites
- Thinocyon velox2 sites
- Viverravus minutus2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anaptomorphus westi1 site
- Anosteira ornata1 site
- Antiacodon1 site
- Antiacodon pygmaeus1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Brachianodon westorum, 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
2 references- Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming7
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Brachianodon westorum 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 Brachianodon westorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachianodon westorum 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 itBrachianodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnell and Gingerich 1993