Bositra

Bositra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PosidoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Posidoniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 493 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 79 of 493 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 40 of 493 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 17 of 493 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 86 of 493 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 268 of 493 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 493 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 493 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 493 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 31 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 54 occurrences244–239 Mya — about 24 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 24 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 3 occurrences192–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–181 Mya — about 56 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 20 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 146 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 39 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 85 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251.1 Mya106.3 Mya255 Mya97 Mya

493 occurrences of Bositra on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

493 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

69 formations

Opalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EOpalinuston — 47.37°N, 7.78°EOpalinuston — 47.68°N, 8.52°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WVikinghogda — 78.58°N, 15.29°EVikinghogda — 78.33°N, 16.48°EVikinghogda — 78.26°N, 16.91°EVikinghogda — 78.59°N, 14.44°EVikinghogda — 78.34°N, 16.41°EVikinghogda — 78.48°N, 15.56°EVikinghogda — 78.29°N, 16.56°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°EBac Thuy — 21.74°N, 106.72°EOxford Clay — 52.00°N, 1.00°WOxford Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAgoudim — 32.24°N, 4.26°WFernie — 50.62°N, 115.17°WFernie — 49.52°N, 115.08°WFernie — 52.08°N, 115.92°WFernie — 53.25°N, 118.08°WFernie — 53.25°N, 118.25°WJhurio — 23.50°N, 70.50°ENishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EKongressfjellet — 78.53°N, 21.96°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°WTvillingodden — 77.62°N, 14.98°ETvillingodden — 78.10°N, 13.87°EFavret — 39.61°N, 117.49°WTakwahoni — 58.65°N, 133.08°WWhiteaves — 53.42°N, 132.27°WBlind Fiord — 81.05°N, 90.10°WBlind Fiord — 80.64°N, 87.62°WToad River — 56.05°N, 123.08°WQinglong — 30.45°N, 117.54°EMajiaoling — 23.50°N, 107.55°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EBedford Canyon — 33.79°N, 117.60°WBedford Canyon — 33.79°N, 117.54°W

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The named rock units Bositra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 106 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bositra and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Bositra and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

602 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 394 sites for Bositra, and this reads 240 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

100 references

Each of the 493 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. 88 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 Bositra

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Bositra 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. De Gregorio 1886