Brachyodus

Searched as Brachyodus intermedius. The Paleobiology Database treats Brachyodus as the accepted name.

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 41.03 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya15.98 Mya41.7 Mya6.6 Mya

7 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

7 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.

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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Brachyodus

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

3D model

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

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.

Keep going

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