Bolosaurus striatus
No picture of Bolosaurus striatus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bolosaurus striatus itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bolosaurus striatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
5 occurrences of Bolosaurus striatus 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group2
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Archer City Formation · Wichita Group1
- Garber Formation · Sumner Group1
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The named rock units Bolosaurus striatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bolosaurus striatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Bolosaurus striatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Ophiacodon uniformis3 sites
- Trimerorhachis3 sites
- Archeria crassidisca2 sites
- Cricotus2 sites
- Diadectes2 sites
- Dimetrodon natalis2 sites
- Eryops2 sites
- Eryops megacephalus2 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus2 sites
- Sagenodus2 sites
- Annularia1 site
- Aspidosaurus1 site
- Bolosaurus major1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Calamites undulatus1 site
- Callipteridium1 site
- Callipteris1 site
- Clepsydrops1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Dadoxylon1 site
- Diadectes sideropelicus1 site
- Dimetrodon1 site
- Dimetrodon booneorum1 site
- Dimetrodon limbatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bolosaurus striatus, 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
5 references- First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae1
- Catalog of type and figured fossil vertebrates, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History1
- Early Permian Depositional Environments of Pond Bonebeds in Central Archer County, Texas1
- Taphonomy of the Lower Permian Geraldine Bonebed in Archer County, Texas1
- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds1
Each of the 5 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Bolosaurus striatus · AMNH:farb:4320
No picture of Bolosaurus striatus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bolosaurus striatus itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bolosaurus striatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBolosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878