Boueina

Boueina

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
HalimedaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Halimedaceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Halimedaceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Halimedaceae
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Halimedaceae

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 91 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 91 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 69 of 91 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 91 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 5 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 24 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 18 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 17 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 9 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences227.3 Mya66 Mya241 Mya58 Mya

91 occurrences of Boueina on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

91 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

18 formations

Mauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°ETaft — 31.64°N, 53.81°EHeiligkreuz — 46.54°N, 12.11°Ecalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.40°N, 9.22°WDeccan Intertrappean — 25.05°N, 79.15°EAssises à Orbitolines — 38.81°N, 9.47°WAssises à Orbitolines — 39.95°N, 9.42°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WHalal — 30.80°N, 33.45°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°EAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°EShotori Dolomite — 32.50°N, 57.33°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ECalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WLamno — 5.50°N, 95.25°ELes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires et silts de Ladeiras — 38.40°N, 9.22°WRizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°EValea Minusului — 45.02°N, 21.88°E

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The named rock units Boueina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Boueina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Boueina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Boueina, 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

22 references

Each of the 91 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. 10 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 Boueina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Boueina 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.

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What may have been alongside itHalimedaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Toula 1883