Brachidontes

Searched as Brachydontes. The Paleobiology Database treats Brachidontes as the accepted name.

Brachidontes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 516 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 516 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 19 of 516 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 516 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 516 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 136 of 516 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 52 of 516 occurrencesEocene — about 159 of 516 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 516 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 516 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 516 occurrencesPleistocene — about 60 of 516 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–164 Mya — about 9 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 10 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 58 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 28 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 26 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 33 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 45 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 53 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 53 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 42 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 92 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

516 occurrences of Brachidontes on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

516 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

158 formations

Woodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 32.35°N, 97.39°WWoodbine — 32.55°N, 97.24°WWoodbine — 32.63°N, 97.29°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.74°N, 97.11°WWoodbine — 33.05°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.40°N, 96.96°WWoodbine — 33.16°N, 96.94°WWoodbine — 33.69°N, 96.35°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.86°N, 95.25°WShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EMeganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WWeches — 31.61°N, 94.64°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.90°S, 69.53°WRoca — 35.68°S, 69.67°WRoca — 34.73°S, 69.65°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WRoca — 36.20°S, 69.50°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.24°N, 123.08°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.21°N, 123.18°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.92°N, 119.25°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.02°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 119.24°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.03°N, 119.24°WMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.63°N, 93.64°WMarthaville — 31.47°N, 93.57°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.15°WMission Valley — 32.78°N, 117.14°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.42°N, 77.41°WBushnell Rock — 43.31°N, 123.12°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WSilverado — 33.87°N, 117.71°WSilverado — 33.81°N, 117.76°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WKaskapau — 55.15°N, 120.93°WKaskapau — 59.98°N, 119.89°WKaskapau — 59.88°N, 120.00°WKaskapau — 55.82°N, 118.37°WTamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°E

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The named rock units Brachidontes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 134 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachidontes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachidontes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,906 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 347 sites for Brachidontes, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

165 references

Each of the 516 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. 153 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 Brachidontes

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. (Swainson 1840)