Bellerophon blairi
No picture of Bellerophon blairi 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 Bellerophon blairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BellerophonPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophon
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophon
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophon
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bellerophon blairi 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Bellerophon blairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellerophon blairi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Bellerophon blairi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Chonetipustula concentrica2 sites
- Grammysia2 sites
- Linoproductus ovatus2 sites
- Schellwienella2 sites
- Syringothyris2 sites
- <Taxocrinid>1 site
- Aclisina1 site
- Anematina conica1 site
- Angyomphalus lens1 site
- Archaeogastropod sp.1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Beecheria chouteauensis1 site
- Bellerophon sedaliensis1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Breviphillipsia1 site
- Bucanopsis1 site
- Caenanoplia1 site
- Calvustrigis1 site
- Cardiola lyoni1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Chonetes glenparkensis1 site
- Chonetes illinoisensis1 site
- Chonetes logani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bellerophon blairi, 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
2 references- The Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook Series of Iowa2
- New species of Palaeozoic invertebrates from Illinois and other states1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Bellerophon blairi 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 Bellerophon blairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellerophon blairi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBellerophon through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Gurley 1896