Bothidae

Bothidae or lefteye flounders are a family of flounders. They are called "lefteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their right sides, with both eyes on their left sides. The family is also distinguished by the presence of spines on the snout and near the eyes.

Bothidae

Hans Hillewaert · 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
PleuronectoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 144 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 144 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 144 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 80 of 144 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 144 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 17 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 16 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 14 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

144 occurrences of Bothidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

144 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

34 formations

Mount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.37°S, 170.91°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EDouble Corner Shellbed — 43.07°S, 172.63°EDouble Corner Shellbed — 43.11°S, 172.78°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WLindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WNanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EMakrilia — 35.04°N, 25.76°EStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WAbad — 37.09°N, 2.08°WTsurevsky — 44.41°N, 39.79°E

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The named rock units Bothidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bothidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bothidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,911 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Bothidae, 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

52 references

Each of the 144 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. 40 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

Media content1

Picture of Bothidae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.