Brosmophycis regularis
No picture of Brosmophycis regularis 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 Brosmophycis regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrosmophycisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Brosmophycis regularis 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Brosmophycis regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brosmophycis regularis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brosmophycis regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Apogon bellovacinus3 sites
- Ogilbia kokeni3 sites
- Psettodes oedelemensis3 sites
- Platycephalus janeti2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Aequalobythites aequalis1 site
- Antigonia angusta1 site
- Brachycarcharias atlasi1 site
- Brosmophycis elegans1 site
- Caesio1 site
- Carapus lisus1 site
- Centropyge kotthausi1 site
- Cepola1 site
- Cepola elegans1 site
- Dapalis meldertensis1 site
- Dentex ovatus1 site
- Epinephelus1 site
- Exallias vectensis1 site
- Genypterus rectangularis1 site
- Gymnothorax diagonalis1 site
- Haemulidarum kokeni1 site
- Hoplobrotula lerichei1 site
- Hoplobrotula sulcata1 site
- Isurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brosmophycis regularis, 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
2 references- Sur la faune ichthyologique des formations du Panisel et de Den Hoorn (Eocène Belge)2
- Les otolithes du calcaire grossier a fercourt (Eocene du bassin du Paris)1
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 Brosmophycis regularis 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 Brosmophycis regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brosmophycis regularis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrosmophycis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Priem 1911)