Bauzaia melrosensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BauzaiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ophididae
- Life habit
- nektonic, depth=deepPBDB, for Ophididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Bauzaia melrosensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- 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.
Found in
4 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Stone City Formation1
- “lower” and “middle” Lisbon Formation1
- “upper” Lisbon Formation1
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The named rock units Bauzaia melrosensis 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.
Bauzaia melrosensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bauzaia melrosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Allomorone burlesonis6 sites
- Bauzaia lamberi6 sites
- Carapus smithvillensis6 sites
- Brazosiella kokeni5 sites
- Preophidion petropolis5 sites
- Jefitchia copelandi4 sites
- Symmetrosulcus4 sites
- Bregmaceros troelli3 sites
- Caproidarum serratus3 sites
- Ekokenia eporrecta3 sites
- Haemulon3 sites
- Lactarius amplus3 sites
- Myripristis3 sites
- Protanago nonsector3 sites
- Pseudophichthys3 sites
- Pterothrissus umbonatus3 sites
- Sciaena3 sites
- Signata stenzeli3 sites
- Sparus elegantulus3 sites
- Trachinus3 sites
- Brazosiella moseleyi2 sites
- Citharus2 sites
- Clupeidae2 sites
- Elopothrissus bernardlemorti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bauzaia melrosensis, 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- Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA4
- Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast3
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 Bauzaia melrosensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bauzaia melrosensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bauzaia melrosensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itBauzaia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frizzell and Dante 1965)