Bolinichthys

Bolinichthys

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
MyctophidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Bolinichthys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

16 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

5 formations

Gutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.05°WModelo — 34.15°N, 118.47°W

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The named rock units Bolinichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bolinichthys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bolinichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Bolinichthys, 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

14 references

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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Bolinichthys

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Bolinichthys 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paxton 1972