Dimitobelus

Dimitobelus is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

Dimitobelus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimitobelidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 49 of 123 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 123 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 8 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 8 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–84 Mya — about 32 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 11 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

123 occurrences of Dimitobelus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

123 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

20 formations

Okarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.60°S, 173.42°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°EFossil Bluff — 71.53°S, 68.83°WFossil Bluff — 72.00°S, 69.00°WFossil Bluff — 71.78°S, 68.75°WFossil Bluff — 71.88°S, 68.83°WFossil Bluff — 71.83°S, 68.67°WFossil Bluff — 71.70°S, 68.83°WFossil Bluff — 79.82°S, 55.00°WFossil Bluff — 72.15°S, 69.08°WTarapuhi Grit — 42.57°S, 173.52°EPluto Glacier — 70.75°S, 68.50°WPluto Glacier — 71.13°S, 68.29°WPluto Glacier — 71.56°S, 68.22°WWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WWhisky Bay — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 63.87°S, 57.83°WSanta Marta — 63.83°S, 57.83°WSanta Marta — 63.87°S, 57.90°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.25°S, 176.25°ETe Mai — 40.88°S, 176.97°EKoranga Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°ETe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EConway Siltstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EKarekare Siltstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°ENeptune Glacier — 72.07°S, 68.92°WNeptune Glacier — 71.75°S, 68.50°WKotick Point — 64.17°S, 57.75°WMangapokia — 40.80°S, 176.00°EMangapokia — 40.92°S, 176.00°EClaverley Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°ESpringhill — 40.88°S, 176.97°EKatiki — 45.47°S, 170.82°EAnnankov Island — 54.50°S, 37.04°W

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The named rock units Dimitobelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimitobelus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dimitobelus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Dimitobelus, 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

18 references

Each of the 123 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. 6 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 Dimitobelus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dimitobelus 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 itDimitobelidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitehouse 1925