Bellerophon deflectus
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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 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 251.902 Mya.
26 occurrences of Bellerophon deflectus 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
26 occurrences- Permian100%
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
12 formations
- Loray Formation7
- Bone Spring Formation5
- Kaibab Formation3
- Road Canyon Formation2
- Delaware Mountain Formation2
- Park City Formation1
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The named rock units Bellerophon deflectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellerophon deflectus and its relatives
PermianWhere Bellerophon deflectus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
469 taxa- Prodentalium canna11 sites
- Orthonema8 sites
- Euphemites crenulatus7 sites
- Nuculavus levatiformis7 sites
- Amphiscapha proxima6 sites
- Glabrocingulum coronatum6 sites
- Meekospira6 sites
- Polidevcia obesa6 sites
- Ananias labrectus5 sites
- Callistadia bella5 sites
- Euphemites aequisulcatus5 sites
- Retispira modesta5 sites
- Worthenia corrugata5 sites
- Astartella subquadrata4 sites
- Cyrtorostra varicostata4 sites
- Euomphalus kaibabensis4 sites
- Euphemites imperator4 sites
- Manzanella4 sites
- Osteichthyes4 sites
- Permophorus albequus4 sites
- Peruvispira delicata4 sites
- Schizodus4 sites
- Streblopteria montpelierensis4 sites
- Tapinotomaria crassa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Bellerophon deflectus, 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
7 references- Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 3. Bellerophontacea and Patellacea10
- Paleontology of the Permian Loray Formation in White Pine County, Nevada7
- Biostratigraphy of the Phosphoria, Park City, and Shedhorn Formations; Geology of Permian Rocks in the Western Phosphate Field3
- Molluscan fauna from the Permian Kaibab Formation, Walnut Canyon, Arizona3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Gastropods from the Paso Hondo Formation (lower-middle Permian) of Chiapas, Mexico: Stratigraphical and paleobiogeographical considerations1
- Upper Wolfcampian (?) Mollusca from the Arrow Canyon Range, Clark County, Nevada1
Each of the 26 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
Media content0
No picture of Bellerophon deflectus 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 deflectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellerophon deflectus 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chronic 1952)