Brachypsalis

Brachypsalis is an extinct genus of mustelids, which existed during the Miocene period.

Brachypsalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OligobuninaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Brachypsalis 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

16 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

8 formations

Olcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPawnee Creek Beds — 40.80°N, 103.10°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°W

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The named rock units Brachypsalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachypsalis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Brachypsalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Brachypsalis, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Brachypsalis

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

No 3D scan of Brachypsalis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1890