Bauzaia
No picture of Bauzaia 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 Bauzaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ophididae
- Life habit
- nektonic, depth=deepPBDB, for Ophididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At least 36 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
32 occurrences of Bauzaia 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
32 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
11 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group10
- Stone City Formation3
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- “lower” and “middle” Lisbon Formation3
- “upper” Lisbon Formation2
- Lisbon Formation1
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The named rock units Bauzaia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bauzaia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bauzaia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Allomorone burlesonis13 sites
- Brazosiella kokeni13 sites
- Pterothrissus umbonatus10 sites
- Jefitchia copelandi9 sites
- Lactarius amplus9 sites
- Sciaena9 sites
- Ekokenia eporrecta8 sites
- Preophidion petropolis8 sites
- Bregmaceros troelli7 sites
- Caproidarum serratus7 sites
- Carapus smithvillensis7 sites
- Sparus elegantulus7 sites
- Symmetrosulcus7 sites
- Clupeidae6 sites
- Haemulon6 sites
- Paraconger6 sites
- Protanago nonsector6 sites
- Signata stenzeli6 sites
- Glyptophidium stringeri5 sites
- Myripristis5 sites
- Pseudophichthys5 sites
- Pseudophichthys texanus5 sites
- Pythonichthys5 sites
- Trachinus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Bauzaia, 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- Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA16
- Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast11
- Early Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA2
- Das Sternberger Gestein un seine Artenzahl - Stand 19941
- A fossil fish fauna from the Upper Eocene Mission Valley Formation at the Lake Miramar Filtration Plant, San Diego, San Diego County, California1
- Revision des otolithes de teleosteens du Tortonien stratotypique et de Montegibbio (Miocene Superieur d'Italie Septentrionale)1
Each of the 32 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 content0
No picture of Bauzaia 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 Bauzaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bauzaia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOphididae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frizzell and Dante 1965