Boletzkya

No picture of Boletzkya 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 Boletzkya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BoletzkyidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411.1 Mya399 Mya

1 occurrence of Boletzkya on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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.

Found in

1 formation

Hunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°E

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The named rock units Boletzkya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Boletzkya and its relatives

Devonian

Where Boletzkya and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Boletzkya, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Boletzkya 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 Boletzkya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Boletzkya 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.

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What may have been alongside itBoletzkyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bandel et al. 1983