Brachysphingus

Brachysphingus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BuccinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 61 of 80 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 21 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 17 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 14 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

80 occurrences of Brachysphingus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

80 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

12 formations

Santa Susana — 34.29°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.08°N, 118.54°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WMeganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WSan Francisquito — 34.42°N, 117.85°WSan Francisquito — 34.61°N, 118.61°WLaguna Seca — 36.73°N, 120.71°WSilverado — 33.86°N, 117.82°WSilverado — 33.82°N, 117.71°WVine Hill — 38.03°N, 122.10°WEl Piojo — 35.73°N, 120.93°WCowlitz — 46.39°N, 122.96°WLas Virgenes — 34.25°N, 118.74°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Brachysphingus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachysphingus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Brachysphingus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

478 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Brachysphingus, 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

13 references

Each of the 80 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. 1 further reference is 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 Brachysphingus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Brachysphingus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1869