Bellerophon

Bellerophon is a genus of extinct marine molluscs of uncertain position in the family Bellerophontidae.

Bellerophon

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 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
BellerophontinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 226 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 251.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 247 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 695 occurrencesOrdovician — about 8 of 695 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 695 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 93 of 695 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 131 of 695 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 443 of 695 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 9 of 695 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 695 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–425 Mya — about 6 occurrences425–417 Mya — about 3 occurrences417–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–400 Mya — about 4 occurrences400–392 Mya — about 11 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 53 occurrences384–375 Mya — about 13 occurrences375–367 Mya — about 3 occurrences367–359 Mya — about 6 occurrences359–350 Mya — about 12 occurrences350–342 Mya — about 15 occurrences342–334 Mya — about 25 occurrences334–325 Mya — about 16 occurrences325–317 Mya — about 15 occurrences317–309 Mya — about 14 occurrences309–300 Mya — about 27 occurrences300–292 Mya — about 26 occurrences292–284 Mya — about 39 occurrences284–275 Mya — about 61 occurrences275–267 Mya — about 36 occurrences267–259 Mya — about 68 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 228 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences477.1 Mya251.1 Mya492 Mya242 Mya

695 occurrences of Bellerophon on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

695 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

196 formations

Chhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.96°N, 71.20°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.61°N, 71.76°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.42°N, 72.12°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.25°N, 71.14°EWargal — 32.44°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.43°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.58°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EHueco — 31.34°N, 104.87°WHueco — 31.45°N, 104.98°WHueco — 31.12°N, 105.15°WHueco — 31.43°N, 104.88°WHueco — 31.19°N, 105.35°WHueco — 31.84°N, 105.99°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WHueco — 32.29°N, 106.07°WHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WHueco — 31.06°N, 104.86°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 35.07°N, 111.96°WKaibab — 34.55°N, 111.24°WKaibab — 34.52°N, 111.33°WKaibab — 34.43°N, 110.59°WKaibab — 35.43°N, 111.20°WKaibab — 35.94°N, 111.61°WKaibab — 35.95°N, 111.69°WKaibab — 36.77°N, 111.65°WAmb — 32.55°N, 72.40°EAmb — 32.58°N, 71.78°EAmb — 32.62°N, 72.78°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°EColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WZewan — 34.09°N, 74.98°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WColina — 31.59°N, 110.01°WColina — 31.66°N, 110.07°WColina — 32.10°N, 110.01°WRogers City — 45.42°N, 83.82°WCalcaire de Seilles — 50.73°N, 5.70°EDawson Bay — 51.02°N, 98.68°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.81°WDawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WDawson Bay — 52.78°N, 100.95°WDawson Bay — 52.48°N, 99.98°WDawson Bay — 52.46°N, 100.69°WDawson Bay — 52.08°N, 99.84°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.13°WHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EBone Spring — 31.78°N, 105.93°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.10°EMorridge — 53.13°N, 2.20°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WDenay Limestone — 39.55°N, 116.28°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 43.46°N, 109.55°WPark City — 43.13°N, 109.15°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WBird Spring — 36.50°N, 115.58°WBird Spring — 35.73°N, 115.40°WBird Spring — 35.67°N, 115.48°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.15°W

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The named rock units Bellerophon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 172 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bellerophon and its relatives

Permian

Where Bellerophon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

3,471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 521 sites for Bellerophon, and this reads 240 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

186 references

Each of the 695 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. 174 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 Bellerophon

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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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 itBellerophontinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Montfort 1808)