Botulopsis
No picture of Botulopsis 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 Botulopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MytilidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Botulopsis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
7 occurrences- Middle 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
- Qingyan Formation5
- Augusta Mountain Formation · Star Peak Group1
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The named rock units Botulopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Botulopsis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Botulopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Leptochondria6 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis5 sites
- Arcavicula5 sites
- Balanocrinus5 sites
- Bositra wengensis5 sites
- Cassianella5 sites
- Cassianella simplex5 sites
- Cidaris5 sites
- Coelostylina liscaviensis5 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis5 sites
- Elegantarca subareata5 sites
- Elegantinia5 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis5 sites
- Lepismatina hsui5 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli5 sites
- Mentzelia subspherica5 sites
- Modiolus salzstettensis5 sites
- Newaagia5 sites
- Protostrea sinensis5 sites
- Pteria5 sites
- Qingyanocrinus kueichounensis5 sites
- Ruxingella5 sites
- Septaliphorioidea paucicostata5 sites
- Solenopora5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Botulopsis, 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
3 references- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina5
- Patterns of fossil distributions within their environmental context from the Middle Triassic in South Canyon, Central Nevada, USA1
- Illustrazione della fauna triasica di Valdepena (Cadore) [Illustration of the Triassic fauna of Valdepena (Cadore)]1
Each of the 7 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. 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 content0
No picture of Botulopsis 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 Botulopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Botulopsis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMytilidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reis 1926