Brasilichnium elusivum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrasilichniumPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.2 Mya100.5 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

3 occurrences of Brasilichnium elusivum on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

3 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

1 formation

  • Botucatu Formation · São Bento GroupSão Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul · BR · 121.4–113.2 Mya2
Botucatu — 21.82°S, 48.07°WBotucatu — 29.72°S, 52.43°W

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The named rock units Brasilichnium elusivum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brasilichnium elusivum and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Brasilichnium elusivum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brasilichnium elusivum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Brasilichnium elusivum 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 Brasilichnium elusivum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brasilichnium elusivum 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 itBrasilichnium through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leonardi 1981