Belemnitina

Belemnitina is a suborder of belemnites, an extinct group of cephalopods. They have been identified as the oldest of all the belemnites and are likely the stockgroup for them. They were extant from the early Jurassic to the early Cretaceous. Their geographic distribution was mostly limited to Europe, although specimens have been described in Japan suggesting they may have been more widespread than previously thought.

Belemnitina

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
belemnitePBDB
Sits inside
BelemnitidaPBDB
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 214 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 751 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 751 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 751 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 751 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 751 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 751 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 751 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 751 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 751 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 377 of 751 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 59 of 751 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 84 of 751 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 225 of 751 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 751 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 751 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 751 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 751 occurrences549–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–199 Mya — about 14 occurrences199–181 Mya — about 262 occurrences181–164 Mya — about 159 occurrences164–146 Mya — about 71 occurrences146–129 Mya — about 205 occurrences129–111 Mya — about 34 occurrences111–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence251.902 Mya37.71 Mya549 Mya24 Mya

751 occurrences of Belemnitina on record, most of them in the Early 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

751 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

67 formations

Belemnite Marls — 50.72°N, 2.85°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WBelemnite Marls — 50.76°N, 2.86°WBelemnite Marls — 50.76°N, 2.85°WMarnes de Fontaneilles — 43.85°N, 3.12°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EYuryung-Tumus — 74.02°N, 111.58°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.62°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EMarnes de Villeneuve — 43.85°N, 3.12°ESchistes Cartons — 43.85°N, 3.12°EMount Goodenough — 67.95°N, 135.41°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.82°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.75°N, 2.90°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.91°WMariposa — 38.50°N, 121.01°WMariposa — 37.98°N, 120.56°WMariposa — 37.95°N, 120.52°WMariposa — 37.60°N, 120.13°WAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.91°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.94°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.95°EBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°ELa Casita — 25.05°N, 101.06°WMonte de Oro — 39.54°N, 121.53°WJanusfjellet — 77.17°N, 16.00°EJanusfjellet — 78.06°N, 18.69°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WMarnes de Jamoigne — 49.72°N, 5.22°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°ECorniola — 41.96°N, 12.80°ECorniola — 43.05°N, 12.67°ENovikovo — 56.05°N, 46.47°ENovikovo — 55.32°N, 46.57°E

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The named rock units Belemnitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 336 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnitina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Belemnitina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

964 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 426 sites for Belemnitina, and this reads 240 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

95 references

Each of the 751 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. 83 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 Belemnitina

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belemnitina 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.

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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What may have been alongside itBelemnitida through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1895