Bolosauria
No picture of Bolosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Bolosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParareptiliaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
25 occurrences of Bolosauria on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
25 occurrences- Carboniferous6%
- Permian94%
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
14 formations
- Belebei Formation4
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group3
- Isheevo Formation3
- Arroyo Formation · Clear Fork Group1
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Tambach Formation · Rotliegend Group1
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The named rock units Bolosauria 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.
Bolosauria and its relatives
PermianWhere Bolosauria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Bolosauridae5 sites
- Diadectes5 sites
- Trimerorhachis5 sites
- Bolosaurus striatus4 sites
- Eryops4 sites
- Anomodontia3 sites
- Archegosauroidea3 sites
- Dimetrodon natalis3 sites
- Discordichthys spinifer3 sites
- Edaphosaurus3 sites
- Eryops megacephalus3 sites
- Leptoropha3 sites
- Lissodus3 sites
- Ophiacodon3 sites
- Ophiacodon uniformis3 sites
- Polyacrodus3 sites
- Acheloma cumminsi2 sites
- Acropholis2 sites
- Archeria crassidisca2 sites
- Aspidosaurus2 sites
- Bolosaurus2 sites
- Captorhinidae2 sites
- Captorhinus aguti2 sites
- Cricotus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Bolosauria, 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
19 references- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds3
- Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian2
- First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae2
- Podklass Captorhinomorpha2
- Upper Permian vertebrates and their sedimentological context in the South Urals, Russia2
- New Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Permian of European Russia1
- A new species of Burguklia (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Permian of the Volga Region (European Russia)1
- Pennsylvanian-Permian red bed vertebrate localities of New Mexico and their assemblages1
- The oldest parareptile and the early diversification of reptiles1
- Cranial morphology and evolution of Permian Dinomorpha (Eotherapsida) of Eastern Europe1
- A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance1
- Early Permian Vertebrate Assemblage and its Biostratigraphic Significance, Arroyo del Agua, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico1
Each of the 25 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. 7 further references are 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
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No picture of Bolosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bolosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bolosauria 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 itParareptilia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kuhn 1959)