Bonapartia pedaliota
Zaphotias pedaliotus, the longray fangjaw, is a species of bristlemouth found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It is the only described species in its genus. This species grows to a standard length (SL) of 7.2 centimetres (2.8 in).

HulloThere · 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
- BonapartiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Stomiiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Stomiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stomiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bonapartia pedaliota on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Bonapartia pedaliota and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bonapartia pedaliota and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Aphanopus1 site
- Argentina sphyraena1 site
- Argyropelecus1 site
- Arnoglossus kokeni1 site
- Bellotia apoda1 site
- Benthosema glaciale1 site
- Benthosema suborbitale1 site
- Blennius ocellaris1 site
- Carapus acus1 site
- Cepola rubescens1 site
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis1 site
- Chelidonichthys lucerna1 site
- Coelorinchus1 site
- Coelorinchus stellaris1 site
- Coryphaenoides1 site
- Deltentosteus1 site
- Dentex1 site
- Diaphus rafinesqui1 site
- Diaphus taaningi1 site
- Echiodon1 site
- Electrona rissoi1 site
- Gadiculus argenteus1 site
- Gaidropsarus1 site
- Gobius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bonapartia pedaliota, 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 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bonapartia pedaliota
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- HulloThere
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bonapartia pedaliota was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBonapartia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goode and Bean 1896