Bellerophon

Searched as Bellerophon cf. deflectus. The Paleobiology Database treats Bellerophon as the accepted name.

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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya259.857 Mya290.8 Mya253.4 Mya

3 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

3 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

Park City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WAdmiral — 33.59°N, 98.96°WEpitaph — 31.65°N, 110.07°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.

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

3 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Bellerophon

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 and MorphoSource were 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 PermianThe world it lived on

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