Belemnites pacificus
No picture of Belemnites pacificus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Belemnites pacificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BelemnitesPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Belemnites pacificus on record, most of them in the Late 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
7 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Belemnites pacificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Belemnites pacificus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Belemnites pacificus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Buchia concentrica5 sites
- Subdichotomoceras filiplex2 sites
- Amussium (Entolium) aurarium1 site
- Avicula1 site
- Buchia erringtoni1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Nuculanida1 site
- Pectinoidea1 site
- Perisphinctes1 site
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) muhlbachi1 site
- Perisphinctes (Discosphinctes) virgulatiformis1 site
- Pholadomya orbiculata1 site
- Phylloceras1 site
- Taramelliceras (Proscaphites) denticulatum1 site
- Turbo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Belemnites pacificus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 references- Late Jurassic ammonites from the western Sierra Nevada, California6
- Notes on some fossils front the gold bearing slates of Mariposa, with description of some new species1
Each of the 7 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 Belemnites pacificus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Belemnites pacificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Belemnites pacificus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBelemnites through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1864