Belemnoteuthis antiqua

Belemnoteuthis antiqua

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthoteuthisPBDB
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 5.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 149.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155.3 Mya148.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Belemnoteuthis antiqua 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

1 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

Kimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.13°W

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The named rock units Belemnoteuthis antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Belemnoteuthis antiqua and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Belemnoteuthis antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Belemnoteuthis antiqua, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Belemnoteuthis antiqua

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No 3D scan of Belemnoteuthis antiqua 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mantell 1847