Branchioplax sulcata

No picture of Branchioplax sulcata 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 Branchioplax sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BranchioplaxPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mathildellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 43 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.9 Mya22.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Branchioplax sulcata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

4 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.

Branchioplax sulcata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Branchioplax sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Branchioplax sulcata, 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 4 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 content0

No picture of Branchioplax sulcata 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 Branchioplax sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Branchioplax sulcata 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.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBranchioplax through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller and Collins 1991