Bodianus

Bodianus is a genus of fishes in the family of wrasses, the Labridae, which are commonly known as hogfishes. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. These species have many parasites.

Bodianus

Jean-Lou Justine · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
LabridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 340 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences740 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences18.7 Mya340 ka22.2 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Bodianus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3 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.

Found in

1 formation

Waioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°E

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The named rock units Bodianus 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.

Bodianus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bodianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bodianus, 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 3 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 content2

Picture of Bodianus

Credit
Jean-Lou Justine
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itLabridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bloch 1790