Brotia
Brotia is a genus of Southeast Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family Pachychilidae.
Frank Koehler · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- ThiarinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Thiaridae
Time the record covers
At least 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
9 occurrences of Brotia on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Brotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Barbatia2 sites
- Cepaea2 sites
- Clithon (Pictoneritina)2 sites
- Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis2 sites
- Crassostrea tenera2 sites
- Cyrtopleura levesquei2 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus2 sites
- Hydrobia2 sites
- Lagomeryx2 sites
- Lentidium2 sites
- Limax2 sites
- Megacricetodon minor2 sites
- Melanopsis2 sites
- Mytilus2 sites
- Neritoplica2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Odostomia2 sites
- Oichnus2 sites
- Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina2 sites
- Planorbarius2 sites
- Pollia2 sites
- Pomatias2 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis2 sites
- Ringicula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brotia, 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
3 references- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)5
- Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)2
- Lower Tertiary strata exposed in a temporary excavation at Well Hall, Eltham, south east London2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Brotia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Frank Koehler
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Brotia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThiarinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1866