Boavus occidentalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoavusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Booidea
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Booidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Booidea
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 12.5 Mya.
16 occurrences of Boavus occidentalis 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
16 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
6 formations
- Bridger Formation7
- Sespe Formation3
- Wind River Formation2
- Wasatch Formation1
- Fleming Formation1
- Brule Formation1
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The named rock units Boavus occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Boavus occidentalis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Boavus occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Anosteira ornata5 sites
- Saniwa ensidens5 sites
- Trionychidae5 sites
- Baptemys wyomingensis4 sites
- Anguidae3 sites
- Baena arenosa3 sites
- Boidae3 sites
- Crocodylus affinis3 sites
- Echmatemys stevensoniana3 sites
- Glyptosaurus sylvestris3 sites
- Lacertilia3 sites
- Pantrionychidae3 sites
- Proterixoides davisi3 sites
- Sespedectes singularis3 sites
- Simimys simplex3 sites
- Viverravus minutus3 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Apatemys2 sites
- Baena affinis2 sites
- Boverisuchus vorax2 sites
- Chisternon undatum2 sites
- Diacodexis secans2 sites
- Didymictis altidens2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Boavus occidentalis, 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
8 references- Fossil snakes of North America6
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa2
- New snakes and lizards from the Eocene of California2
- Preliminary analysis of the vertebrate fossil fauna of the Boysen Reservoir area2
- Herpetofauna of the Trinity River Local Fauna (Miocene: Early Barstovian), San Jacinto County, Texas, USA1
- Squamata1
- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California1
- Third account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene of Wyoming Valley1
Each of the 16 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 Boavus occidentalis 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 Boavus occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Boavus occidentalis 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 itBoavus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1871