Bellazona bella

No picture of Bellazona bella 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 Bellazona bella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BellazonaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous344–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.4 Mya315.2 Mya343.6 Mya306.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Bellazona bella 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

4 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

3 formations

Diamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.93°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WChainman Shale — 39.61°N, 113.68°WWewoka — 35.03°N, 96.38°W

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

Bellazona bella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bellazona bella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bellazona bella, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Bellazona bella 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 Bellazona bella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bellazona bella 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 itBellazona through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1884)