Bajaichthys elegans
No picture of Bajaichthys elegans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bajaichthys elegans itself, so it was not used. 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 Bajaichthys elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BajaichthysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Acanthomorphata
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthomorphata
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthomorphata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bajaichthys elegans on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Bajaichthys elegans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bajaichthys elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Acanthuroides massalongoi2 sites
- Alopiopsis plejodon2 sites
- Bolcabalistes varii2 sites
- Eolactoria sorbinii2 sites
- Eoplectus bloti2 sites
- Eorandallius elegans2 sites
- Eorandallius rectifrons2 sites
- Eotetraodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Gazolaichthys vestenanovae2 sites
- Heptadiodon echinus2 sites
- Latellopsis latellai2 sites
- Lehmanichthys lessiniensis2 sites
- Lessinia horrenda2 sites
- Metacanthurus veronensis2 sites
- Metaspisurus emmanueli2 sites
- Pesciarichthys punctatus2 sites
- Platyrhina bolcensis2 sites
- Plesiozanobatus egertoni2 sites
- Proacanthurus bonatoi2 sites
- Proacanthurus elongatus2 sites
- Proacanthurus ovalis2 sites
- Proacanthurus tenuis2 sites
- Proaracana dubia2 sites
- Prodiodon erinaceus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bajaichthys elegans, 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
2 references- The systematic composition of the Eocene actinopterygian fish fauna from Monte Bolca, northern Italy, as known to date1
- Bajaichthys elegans, and Eocene lampridiform from Bolca, Italy1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bajaichthys elegans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bajaichthys elegans itself, so it was not used.
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 Bajaichthys elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bajaichthys elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBajaichthys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sorbini 1983