Palaeobrachypogon vetus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeobrachypogonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Palaeobrachypogon vetus on record, most of them in the Late 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group3
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The named rock units Palaeobrachypogon vetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeobrachypogon vetus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Palaeobrachypogon vetus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Atriculicoides globosus5 sites
- Culicoides filipalpis5 sites
- Culicoides canadensis4 sites
- Culicoides tyrrelli4 sites
- Heleageron arenatus4 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus4 sites
- Serphites paradoxus4 sites
- Archaeromma minutissimum3 sites
- Archaeromma nearcticum3 sites
- Atriculicoides3 sites
- Baeomorpha ovatata3 sites
- Cretomiastor ferejunctus3 sites
- Culicoides obuncus3 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon remmi3 sites
- Peronehelea chrimikalydia3 sites
- Baeomorpha dubitata2 sites
- Canadaphis carpenteri2 sites
- Cretaceogaster pygmaeus2 sites
- Huttoniidae2 sites
- Longiradius foottitti2 sites
- Mesozoicaphis canadensis2 sites
- Nemedromia campania2 sites
- Protoculicoides depressus2 sites
- Serphites bruesi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Palaeobrachypogon vetus, 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 referencesEach of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Palaeobrachypogon vetus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Palaeobrachypogon vetus 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 itPalaeobrachypogon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Borkent 1995