Belemnitidae

Belemnitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelemnitinaPBDB
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 least 179 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 308 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 308 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 308 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 308 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 308 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 308 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 308 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 308 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 308 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 36 of 308 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 308 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 58 of 308 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 195 of 308 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 308 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 308 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–188 Mya — about 27 occurrences188–171 Mya — about 11 occurrences171–155 Mya — about 30 occurrences155–138 Mya — about 117 occurrences138–122 Mya — about 107 occurrences122–106 Mya — about 11 occurrences106–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence251.902 Mya72.2 Mya548 Mya57 Mya

308 occurrences of Belemnitidae 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

308 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

41 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.62°WMount Goodenough — 67.95°N, 135.41°WMariposa — 38.50°N, 121.01°WMariposa — 37.98°N, 120.56°WMariposa — 37.95°N, 120.52°WMariposa — 37.60°N, 120.13°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.91°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.94°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.95°ELa Casita — 25.05°N, 101.06°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WMonte de Oro — 39.54°N, 121.53°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WBuchia Ridge — 59.25°N, 159.75°WCalcaire a gryphees — 48.00°N, 6.00°EOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.63°WYuryung-Tumus — 74.02°N, 111.58°EJanusfjellet — 78.06°N, 18.69°ELautaro — 28.21°S, 69.94°WLautaro — 28.31°S, 69.96°WCouche de Villers — 47.02°N, 6.92°ETiglukpuk — 68.50°N, 150.40°WKingak Shale — 69.60°N, 146.10°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WHeather — 59.71°N, 1.82°E

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The named rock units Belemnitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 203 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnitidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

958 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Belemnitidae, 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

64 references

Each of the 308 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. 52 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 Belemnitidae

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 Belemnitidae 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 itBelemnitina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1845