Brachypsalis modicus
No picture of Brachypsalis modicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Brachypsalis modicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachypsalisPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Brachypsalis modicus 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
- Pawnee Creek Beds Formation1
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group1
- Caliente Formation1
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The named rock units Brachypsalis modicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachypsalis modicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Brachypsalis modicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Anchitheriomys fluminis2 sites
- Blastomeryx gemmifer2 sites
- Bouromeryx americanus2 sites
- Cormohipparion quinni2 sites
- Leptarctus primus2 sites
- Leptocyon vafer2 sites
- Metechinus amplior2 sites
- Mioheteromyinae2 sites
- Plionictis ogygia2 sites
- Ustatochoerus medius2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Acris crepitans1 site
- Aelurodon ferox1 site
- Aepycamelus robustus1 site
- Allomys stirtoni1 site
- Alluvisorex1 site
- Ambystoma minshalli1 site
- Ameiseophis robinsoni1 site
- Ameiurus1 site
- Amia calva1 site
- Andrias matthewi1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Antrozous1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Brachypsalis modicus, 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
5 references- The first record of Brachypsalis modicus (Carnivora, Mustelidae) in California from the Cuyama Valley (Caliente Formation, Middle Miocene)1
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska1
- A contribution to the mammalian paleontology of the Ogallala group of South-Central South Dakota1
- A New Eomyid Rodent from the Lower Oligocene of Northeastern Colorado1
- Contributions to the Snake Creek Fauna with notes upon the Pleistocene of western Nebraska, American Museum Expedition of 19161
Each of the 5 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Brachypsalis modicus · ucmp:v:66704
No picture of Brachypsalis modicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Brachypsalis modicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrachypsalis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1918)