Bellerophontidae

The Bellerophontidae are an extinct family of specialized globose bellerophontids, Paleozoic and early Triassic mollusks of the class Gastropoda.

Bellerophontidae

William Bullock Clark (1860-1917) et al. · Public Domain · 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
BellerophontoideaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 240 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 2095 occurrencesOrdovician — about 197 of 2095 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 102 of 2095 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 276 of 2095 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 699 of 2095 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 772 of 2095 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 46 of 2095 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 2095 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 2095 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–465 Mya — about 6 occurrences465–456 Mya — about 30 occurrences456–447 Mya — about 129 occurrences447–438 Mya — about 51 occurrences438–429 Mya — about 27 occurrences429–420 Mya — about 52 occurrences420–411 Mya — about 38 occurrences411–402 Mya — about 17 occurrences402–393 Mya — about 23 occurrences393–384 Mya — about 120 occurrences384–375 Mya — about 55 occurrences375–366 Mya — about 12 occurrences366–357 Mya — about 20 occurrences357–348 Mya — about 43 occurrences348–339 Mya — about 42 occurrences339–330 Mya — about 149 occurrences330–321 Mya — about 89 occurrences321–312 Mya — about 45 occurrences312–303 Mya — about 218 occurrences303–294 Mya — about 126 occurrences294–285 Mya — about 82 occurrences285–276 Mya — about 120 occurrences276–267 Mya — about 84 occurrences267–258 Mya — about 159 occurrences258–249 Mya — about 349 occurrences249–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya237 Mya492 Mya222 Mya

2,095 occurrences of Bellerophontidae 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

2,095 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

438 formations

Chhidru — 32.51°N, 71.93°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.96°N, 71.20°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.61°N, 71.76°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 40.30°N, 81.85°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 39.53°N, 82.40°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 40.52°N, 81.47°WAllegheny — 39.67°N, 81.33°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.35°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.02°WAllegheny — 40.25°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 39.47°N, 83.75°WAllegheny — 39.27°N, 82.45°WWargal — 32.55°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.65°N, 72.58°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.25°N, 71.14°EWargal — 32.44°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.43°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.58°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EGraham — 33.22°N, 98.10°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.99°N, 84.45°WLexington Limestone — 37.91°N, 84.26°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 38.07°N, 84.52°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.93°WLexington Limestone — 38.17°N, 84.84°WLexington Limestone — 37.81°N, 84.49°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WLexington Limestone — 37.63°N, 84.73°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.31°WLexington Limestone — 37.94°N, 84.38°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.79°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.87°WHueco — 31.34°N, 104.87°WHueco — 31.45°N, 104.98°WHueco — 31.12°N, 105.15°WHueco — 31.43°N, 104.88°WHueco — 31.19°N, 105.35°WHueco — 31.12°N, 105.14°WHueco — 31.84°N, 105.99°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WHueco — 32.29°N, 106.07°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.95°WHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WHueco — 31.06°N, 104.86°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.60°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.54°N, 74.85°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WMoscow — 42.33°N, 74.31°WKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.10°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.94°N, 14.19°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.78°N, 105.93°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 35.07°N, 111.96°WKaibab — 34.55°N, 111.24°WKaibab — 34.52°N, 111.33°WKaibab — 34.43°N, 110.59°WKaibab — 35.43°N, 111.20°WKaibab — 35.94°N, 111.61°WKaibab — 35.95°N, 111.69°WKaibab — 36.77°N, 111.65°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 37.82°N, 91.56°WCabaniss — 38.34°N, 93.85°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WLaborcita — 32.97°N, 105.91°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.72°N, 76.71°WAmb — 32.55°N, 72.40°EAmb — 32.58°N, 71.78°EAmb — 32.62°N, 72.78°EGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.42°N, 80.19°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°EImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.75°N, 92.94°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.44°WImo — 35.79°N, 91.91°WImo — 35.74°N, 93.28°WImo — 35.74°N, 92.94°WClyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°WClyde — 31.60°N, 99.83°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.90°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.85°WClyde — 31.75°N, 100.00°WClyde — 31.72°N, 99.73°WSisophon — 13.59°N, 102.94°ESisophon — 13.00°N, 103.00°ESisophon — 10.60°N, 104.20°ESisophon — 13.05°N, 103.06°ESisophon — 13.07°N, 103.04°ELexington — 37.79°N, 84.50°WLexington — 37.98°N, 84.69°WLexington — 37.99°N, 84.82°WLexington — 37.73°N, 84.77°WLexington — 37.65°N, 84.77°W

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The named rock units Bellerophontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 414 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 139 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bellerophontidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Bellerophontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,370 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,306 sites for Bellerophontidae, 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

415 references

Each of the 2,095 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. 403 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Bellerophontidae

Credit
William Bullock Clark (1860-1917) et al.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bellerophontidae 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.

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 itBellerophontoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1851