Belemnopsis

Belemnopsis is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

Belemnopsis

Daniel Mietchen · CC BY 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
Sits inside
BelemnopseidaePBDB
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 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 217 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 221 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 136 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 136 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 25 of 136 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 86 of 136 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 136 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 136 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 136 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–181 Mya — about 2 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–170 Mya — about 7 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 7 occurrences165–160 Mya — about 21 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 27 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 22 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 26 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217 Mya119.57 Mya224 Mya63 Mya

136 occurrences of Belemnopsis 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

136 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

28 formations

Ablation Point — 70.75°S, 68.50°WSpartan Glacier — 70.75°S, 68.50°WRio Mayer — 49.00°S, 72.00°WOhineruru — 38.08°S, 174.83°ESabaki — 3.10°S, 39.78°ELautaro — 29.01°S, 70.20°WLautaro — 29.36°S, 70.40°WLautaro — 28.66°S, 70.06°WHimalia Ridge — 70.75°S, 68.50°WCalcaires de Caen — 49.42°N, 0.40°ECalcaires de Caen — 49.19°N, 0.40°WHauberg Mountains — 65.95°S, 60.55°WMoewaka — 37.37°S, 174.77°ESpringhill — 49.00°S, 72.25°WOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.24°WZapata — 51.14°S, 73.28°WAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WSpence Harbour Conglomerate — 60.67°S, 45.17°WCurrier — 49.70°N, 126.62°WOpapaka Sandstone — 38.12°S, 174.75°EAucella Sandstone — 1.87°S, 130.17°ELatady — 75.92°S, 69.92°WChangamwe Shale — 4.03°S, 39.63°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°EPuti Siltstone — 37.46°S, 174.73°ELar — 36.67°N, 53.42°EAmeghino — 63.85°S, 58.07°W

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The named rock units Belemnopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnopsis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Belemnopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

508 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Belemnopsis, 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

45 references

Each of the 136 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. 33 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 content2

Picture of Belemnopsis

Credit
Daniel Mietchen
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itBelemnopseidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bayle 1878)