Brachiosvalbardia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SvalbardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
53 occurrences of Brachiosvalbardia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
53 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Takhandit Formation19
- Wegener Halvo Formation11
- Buffel Formation5
- Noonkanbah Formation3
- Kapp Starostin Formation3
- Talata Formation2
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The named rock units Brachiosvalbardia 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.
Brachiosvalbardia and its relatives
PermianWhere Brachiosvalbardia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Rhynchopora18 sites
- Cancrinella13 sites
- Megousia12 sites
- Horridonia8 sites
- Neochonetes8 sites
- Permophricodothyris6 sites
- Yakovlevia mammata6 sites
- Lissochonetes5 sites
- Paraplatyschisma rotunda5 sites
- Anemonaria pseudohorrida4 sites
- Collabrina parva4 sites
- Echinalosia curtosa4 sites
- Etheripecten4 sites
- Eurydesma cordatum4 sites
- Kuvelousia sphiva4 sites
- Pleurocinctosa promenata4 sites
- Spiraculinella radiata4 sites
- Spiriferella4 sites
- Spiriferellina disparata4 sites
- Tabellina cracowensis4 sites
- Tabellina denmeadi4 sites
- Terrakea pollex4 sites
- Trigonotreta cracovensis4 sites
- Arctitreta kempei3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Brachiosvalbardia, 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
15 references- Personal Opinions18
- Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland11
- Kalashnikov, 19934
- Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 2. The Family Rugosochonetidae Muir-Wood 19623
- Permskie brakhiopody Pay-Khoya (Inarticulata, Strophomenidae i Chonetidae)3
- Studies on Western Australia Permian brachiopods 11. New genera, species and records2
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia2
- Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia2
- Pozdnepaleozoyskie produktidy Sibiri i Arktiki2
- Transitional Ufimian-Kazanian marine deposits in the southeastern seaboard of the Kanin Peninsula, Russia1
- Brachiopod zonation and age of the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation (central Spitsbergen)1
- Svalbardia (Chonetidina, Brachiopoda) from the Kungurian (Permian) of Western Australia1
Each of the 53 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Brachiosvalbardia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Brachiosvalbardia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSvalbardiinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ceccolini and Cianferoni 2023