Bransonia australe
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BransoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At least 2.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
9 occurrences of Bransonia australe on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
6 formations
- Muree Formation2
- Wandrawandian Formation2
- Mangarewa Formation · Productus Creek Group2
- Snapper Point Formation1
- Letham Formation · Productus Creek Group1
- Gerringong Formation1
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The named rock units Bransonia australe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bransonia australe and its relatives
PermianWhere Bransonia australe and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Bransonia robustum3 sites
- Fletcherithyris parkesi3 sites
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana3 sites
- Peruvispira imbricata3 sites
- Aperispirifer lethamensis2 sites
- Etheripecten leniusculus2 sites
- Fletcherithyris biundata2 sites
- Maorielasma imperatum2 sites
- Myonia (Myomedia) carinata2 sites
- Nuculopsis glendonensis2 sites
- Platyteichum loratum2 sites
- Plekonella acuta2 sites
- Quadratonucula asymmetrica2 sites
- Stutchburia costata2 sites
- Vacunella curvata2 sites
- Warthia micromphala2 sites
- Aperispirifer1 site
- Aperispirifer wairakiensis1 site
- Aphanaia mitchelli1 site
- Astartila intrepida1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtella ulladullensis1 site
- Echinalosia maxwelli1 site
- Edmondia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Bransonia australe, 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- The genus Conocardium from Australian Palaeozoic rocks4
- Scaphopod, gastropod and rostroconch species from the Permian of New Zealand3
- Appendix I. Descriptions of Fossils. 1. Fossils of New South Wales1
- XXVIII. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia1
Each of the 9 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 Bransonia australe was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Bransonia australe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bransonia australe 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.
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What may have been alongside itBransonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1847)