Brachyodus

Brachyodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BothriodontinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya15.98 Mya48.9 Mya4.5 Mya

38 occurrences of Brachyodus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

38 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

9 formations

Burgeschleinitz — 48.64°N, 15.81°EMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°ELumeiyi — 24.76°N, 103.33°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EMaradah — 28.00°N, 20.50°EErageleit — 3.36°N, 35.80°ESense Schichten — 47.02°N, 7.13°EElisabeth Bay — 26.96°S, 15.30°E

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The named rock units Brachyodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyodus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Brachyodus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Brachyodus, 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

23 references

Each of the 38 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. 11 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 content3

Picture of Brachyodus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Brachyodus onoideus · ULg :M:5000b

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBothriodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret 1895