Bothriolepididae

Bothriolepididae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BothriolepidiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 155 of 155 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 155 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 11 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 10 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 23 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 13 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 12 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 10 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 10 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 11 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 7 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 5 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 6 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 7 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 5 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 5 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 5 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences410.62 Mya365.2 Mya414 Mya358 Mya

155 occurrences of Bothriolepididae 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

155 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

80 formations

Aztec Siltstone — 78.54°S, 158.43°EAztec Siltstone — 77.88°S, 159.61°EAztec Siltstone — 77.81°S, 160.64°EAztec Siltstone — 78.63°S, 159.45°EAztec Siltstone — 78.58°S, 159.54°EAztec Siltstone — 78.16°S, 159.10°EAztec Siltstone — 78.43°S, 158.68°EAztec Siltstone — 78.53°S, 158.32°EBindaree — 37.17°S, 146.65°EBindaree — 37.17°S, 146.55°EBindaree — 37.76°S, 147.11°EOgre — 57.00°N, 22.61°EOgre — 57.03°N, 22.78°EOgre — 57.00°N, 21.62°EOgre — 57.43°N, 25.91°EOgre — 56.36°N, 24.25°EOgre — 56.71°N, 24.84°EOgre — 56.70°N, 24.88°ESofa — 51.29°N, 74.22°ESofa — 51.13°N, 73.59°ESofa — 50.69°N, 74.45°ECatskill — 41.33°N, 77.08°WCatskill — 41.81°N, 77.78°WCatskill — 41.37°N, 77.08°WKokhai — 51.25°N, 92.50°EKokhai — 51.63°N, 93.72°ELower mudstone unit — 37.17°S, 146.60°EKetleri — 56.70°N, 22.13°EKetleri — 56.59°N, 22.01°EElbert — 37.50°N, 107.63°WElbert — 37.60°N, 107.80°WElbert — 37.54°N, 107.47°WPļaviņas — 56.64°N, 25.41°EPļaviņas — 56.63°N, 25.46°EYam-Tesovo — 57.86°N, 28.21°EYam-Tesovo — 58.89°N, 30.56°ERosebrae Beds — 57.65°N, 3.39°WAlves Beds — 57.65°N, 3.40°WChemung — 39.26°N, 78.23°WChemung — 41.68°N, 76.71°WParting — 38.50°N, 105.92°WParting — 38.67°N, 106.62°WGauja — 58.01°N, 25.38°EDankov-Lebedyan Beds — 52.97°N, 36.07°EDo Son — 20.69°N, 106.79°EJiucheng — 25.53°N, 102.40°ETērvete — 56.46°N, 23.25°EFarlow Sandstones — 53.33°N, 2.51°WEleja — 57.43°N, 25.91°EAmata — 56.63°N, 25.46°EKatleši — 56.51°N, 25.87°EKatleši — 57.34°N, 27.73°E

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The named rock units Bothriolepididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bothriolepididae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bothriolepididae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Bothriolepididae, 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

70 references

Each of the 155 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. 58 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 Bothriolepididae

Credit
This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bothriolepididae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBothriolepidiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1886