Boreosomus scaber
No picture of Boreosomus scaber 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 Boreosomus scaber, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoreosomusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Boreosomus scaber on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- Sticky Keep Formation · Sassendalen Group1
- Kongressfjellet Formation1
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The named rock units Boreosomus scaber 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.
Boreosomus scaber and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Boreosomus scaber and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acrodus spitzbergensis1 site
- Acrodus vermiformis1 site
- Aphaneramma rostratum1 site
- Birgeria mougeoti1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Hybodus microdus1 site
- Hybodus rapax1 site
- Hybodus sasseniensis1 site
- Palaeobates1 site
- Quasianosteosaurus vikinghoegdai1 site
- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus1 site
- Saurichthys wimani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Boreosomus scaber, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Boreosomus scaber 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 Boreosomus scaber, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Boreosomus scaber 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 itBoreosomus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stensiö 1921