Bourbonnella

Bourbonnella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and coastal marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Mississippian (Carboniferous) and Asselian in what is now Burgundy, the Czech Republik, and Utah, with other remains known from elsewhere. The genus was named by Daniel Heyler in 1967.

Bourbonnella

Ghedoghedo · 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
AeduellidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315.2 Mya293.52 Mya324.1 Mya289.4 Mya

8 occurrences of Bourbonnella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

5 formations

Letovice — 49.57°N, 16.61°EManning Canyon — 40.25°N, 111.87°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.34°WUpper Seams — 46.67°N, 4.29°EGreat Seams — 46.69°N, 4.37°E

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The named rock units Bourbonnella 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.

Bourbonnella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bourbonnella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bourbonnella, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Bourbonnella

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bourbonnella 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itAeduellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heyler 1967