Bryum

Bryum is a genus of mosses in the family Bryaceae. It was considered the largest genus of mosses, in terms of the number of species, until it was split into three separate genera in a 2005 publication. As of 2013, the classification of both Bryum and the family Bryaceae to which it belongs underwent significant changes based on DNA studies.

Bryum

Michael Becker · 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
BryaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 1.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePleistocene9.6–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–9.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.2–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.4–2.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9 Mya900 ka

1 occurrence of Bryum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 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.

Bryum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bryum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bryum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bryum

Credit
Michael Becker
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bryum 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBryaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753