Borealestes serendipitus
No picture of Borealestes serendipitus 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 Borealestes serendipitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BorealestesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Borealestes serendipitus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group2
- Kilmaluag Formation · Great Estuarine Group1
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The named rock units Borealestes serendipitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Borealestes serendipitus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Borealestes serendipitus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Caudata3 sites
- Cteniogenys3 sites
- Eupantotheria3 sites
- Pleurosternidae3 sites
- Scincomorpha3 sites
- Stereognathus ooliticus3 sites
- Allotheria2 sites
- Amphitherium2 sites
- Ankylosauria2 sites
- Bellairsia gracilis2 sites
- Cryptodira2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
- Goniopholididae2 sites
- Hahnotherium antiquum2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Kermackodon oxfordensis2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Marmorerpeton2 sites
- Marmorerpeton kermacki2 sites
- Marmoretta oxoniensis2 sites
- Ornithischia2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Sphenodontia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Borealestes serendipitus, 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 referencesEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Borealestes serendipitus 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 Borealestes serendipitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Borealestes serendipitus 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.
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What may have been alongside itBorealestes through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waldman and Savage 1972