Belantsea occidentalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelantseaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Petalodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya276.8 Mya307.8 Mya264.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Belantsea occidentalis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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 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

1 formation

Zeandale Limestone — 39.48°N, 96.15°W

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The named rock units Belantsea occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belantsea occidentalis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Belantsea occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Belantsea occidentalis, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Belantsea occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Belantsea occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (St. John and Worthen 1875)