Bellerophon clarki
No picture of Bellerophon clarki 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 clarki, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bellerophon clarki on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 clarki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellerophon clarki and its relatives
DevonianWhere Bellerophon clarki and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aglaoglypta maera2 sites
- Aglaoglypta nactoides1 site
- Cypricardella tenuistriata1 site
- Gyrodoma marylandica1 site
- Kitikamispira concinna1 site
- Kitikamispira multistriata1 site
- Orthonychia unguiculata1 site
- Palaeozygopleura glabra1 site
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae1 site
- Palaeozygopleura styliola1 site
- Philoxene cyclostomus1 site
- Platyceras marylandicum1 site
- Platyostoma lineata1 site
- Trilobita indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bellerophon clarki, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Devonian faunas in Pennsylvania1
- Systematic paleontology of the Middle Devonian deposits of Maryland1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Bellerophon clarki 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 clarki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellerophon clarki 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 DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clarke and Swartz 1913