Breynia

RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015 · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoveniidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Breynia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene49%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene30%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Breynia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Breynia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Breynia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
283 taxa- Acacia3 sites
- Agathis3 sites
- Araucaria3 sites
- Archontophoenix3 sites
- Argyrodendron3 sites
- Asplenium3 sites
- Asteraceae3 sites
- Balanops3 sites
- Bischofia3 sites
- Callitris3 sites
- Casuarinaceae3 sites
- Celtis3 sites
- Chenopodiaceae3 sites
- Choriceras3 sites
- Cissus3 sites
- Cunoniaceae3 sites
- Cyathea3 sites
- Dacrydium3 sites
- Davalliaceae3 sites
- Dodonaea3 sites
- Drynaria3 sites
- Elaeocarpus3 sites
- Eucalyptus3 sites
- Flindersia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Breynia, 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
6 references- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia3
- Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia2
- Notes on some fossil echinoids of Taiwan, III2
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
- Note on fossil Echinoidea and Gastropoda from Sarawak and Kutei, Borneo1
- Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdecjungen von Fr. Junghuhn1
Each of the 10 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

Picture of Breynia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Breynia 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 itLoveniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.