Helicoprion bessonowi

Helicoprion bessonowi

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
HelicoprionPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290.1 Mya274.4 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

5 occurrences of Helicoprion bessonowi 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

5 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

2 formations

Antler Peak — 40.63°N, 117.02°WYagihawa limestone — 36.50°N, 139.41°E

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The named rock units Helicoprion bessonowi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helicoprion bessonowi and its relatives

Permian

Where Helicoprion bessonowi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Helicoprion bessonowi, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Helicoprion bessonowi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Helicoprion bessonowi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karpinsky 1899