Bellerophon lineatus

No picture of Bellerophon lineatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 lineatus, 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 least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 19 of 28 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPermian — about 9 of 28 occurrencesPermian390–386 Mya — about 5 occurrences386–382 Mya — about 14 occurrences382–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence382.31 Mya283.3 Mya390 Mya272 Mya

28 occurrences of Bellerophon lineatus 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

28 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

12 formations

Clyde — 31.60°N, 99.83°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.90°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.85°WBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.03°ESchwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°EMassenkalk — 50.62°N, 8.56°EMassenkalk — 51.18°N, 8.02°ELueders — 31.80°N, 99.90°WLueders — 31.77°N, 99.96°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°EAdmiral — 31.57°N, 99.60°WSkinner Ranch — 30.21°N, 103.40°WTorquay Limestone — 50.49°N, 3.53°WBücheler Schichten — 51.00°N, 7.18°ELummaton Shell Bed — 50.60°N, 3.63°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Bellerophon lineatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bellerophon lineatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bellerophon lineatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Bellerophon lineatus, 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

6 references

Each of the 28 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 lineatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 lineatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bellerophon lineatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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.

Keep going

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. (Dechen 1832)