Bellerophon
Searched as Bellerophon bicarenus latifascia. The Paleobiology Database treats Bellerophon as the accepted name.
Bellerophon is a genus of extinct marine molluscs of uncertain position in the family Bellerophontidae.
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 most 5.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 353.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bellerophon 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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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.
Bellerophon and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Bellerophon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
3,471 taxa- Aviculopecten21 sites
- Schizodus20 sites
- Prodentalium canna19 sites
- Crinoidea18 sites
- Edmondia16 sites
- Euomphalus16 sites
- Euphemites16 sites
- Gastropoda16 sites
- Composita15 sites
- Euomphalus kaibabensis15 sites
- Derbyia14 sites
- Dielasma14 sites
- Nuculavus levatiformis14 sites
- Nuculopsis14 sites
- Permophorus albequus14 sites
- Chonetes13 sites
- Naticopsis13 sites
- Apachella franciscana12 sites
- Meekospira12 sites
- Murchisonia12 sites
- Orthonema12 sites
- Retispira modesta12 sites
- Apachella translirata11 sites
- Astartella subquadrata11 sites
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
1 referenceEach 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 content2
Picture of Bellerophon
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Montfort 1808)