Bobasatrania

Bobasatrania is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Fossils of Bobasatrania were found in beds of Changhsingian to Ladinian age. It was most speciose during the Early Triassic.

Bobasatrania

Ghedo · 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
BobasatraniidaePBDB
Diet
durophagePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 12 of 17 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251.902 Mya243.43 Mya254.6 Mya241 Mya

17 occurrences of Bobasatrania on record, most of them in the Early 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

17 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

9 formations

Middle Sakamena — 15.24°S, 48.31°EMiddle Sakamena — 13.51°S, 49.07°EMiddle Sakamena — 13.44°S, 48.87°EMiddle Sakamena — 21.71°S, 45.18°EBesano — 45.92°N, 8.95°EWordie Creek — 71.00°N, 23.00°WSulphur Mountain — 54.53°N, 120.74°WDont — 46.74°N, 12.12°EBellerophon — 46.36°N, 11.42°EWerfen — 46.48°N, 11.97°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°ESulphur Mountain Formation — 54.57°N, 120.78°W

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The named rock units Bobasatrania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bobasatrania and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Bobasatrania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Bobasatrania, 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

13 references

Each of the 17 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. 1 further reference is 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 Bobasatrania

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

No 3D scan of Bobasatrania 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

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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 itBobasatraniidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1932