Belemnitella americana

No picture of Belemnitella americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Belemnitella americana itself, so it was not used. 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 Belemnitella americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelemnitellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 35 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

35 occurrences of Belemnitella americana on record, most of them in the Late 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

35 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

9 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.61°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.76°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.77°N, 75.15°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.93°N, 96.11°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 29.43°N, 98.43°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.36°N, 74.12°WNavesink — 40.40°N, 74.03°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WNew Egypt — 39.80°N, 75.09°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°WKemp Clay — 32.10°N, 96.47°WPeedee — 34.40°N, 78.27°W

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The named rock units Belemnitella americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnitella americana and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Belemnitella americana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Belemnitella americana, 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

11 references

Each of the 35 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 content0

No picture of Belemnitella americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Belemnitella americana itself, so it was not used.

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 Belemnitella americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belemnitella americana 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 itBelemnitella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1830)