Belemnobatis sismondae

Belemnobatis sismondae

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
BelemnobatisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.2 Mya137.05 Mya152.7 Mya132.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Belemnobatis sismondae 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

2 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

1 formation

Liegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Belemnobatis sismondae 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.

Belemnobatis sismondae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Belemnobatis sismondae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Belemnobatis sismondae, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Belemnobatis sismondae

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belemnobatis sismondae 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 itBelemnobatis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thiollière 1854