Belinurus trilobitoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelinurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Xiphosurida

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 314.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 309.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 34 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferous323–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–318 Mya — about 4 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 4 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 4 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 4 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 4 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 4 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 4 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 3 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316.9 Mya314.6 Mya323.9 Mya309.3 Mya

34 occurrences of Belinurus trilobitoides on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

34 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

6 formations

Coolbaun Coal — 52.80°N, 7.04°WParrsboro — 45.43°N, 63.03°WUpper Coal Measures — 54.91°N, 1.44°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WCoolbaun Formation — 52.81°N, 7.20°WKarvina — 49.80°N, 18.47°E

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The named rock units Belinurus trilobitoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belinurus trilobitoides and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Belinurus trilobitoides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Belinurus trilobitoides, 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

15 references

Each of the 34 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. 3 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 content0

No picture of Belinurus trilobitoides was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Belinurus trilobitoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belinurus trilobitoides 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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What may have been alongside itBelinurus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buckland 1837)