Belemnitella

Belemnitella is a genus of belemnite from the Late Cretaceous of Europe and North America.

Belemnitella

Skye McDavid · CC BY 4.0 · 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
BelemnitellidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 92 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 92 of 92 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 92 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

92 occurrences of Belemnitella 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

92 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

18 formations

Ahlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 8.02°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.70°N, 7.92°EAhlen — 51.95°N, 7.98°EPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.61°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.76°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNavesink — 39.74°N, 75.18°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.36°N, 74.12°WNavesink — 40.40°N, 74.03°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.77°N, 75.15°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WBavnodde Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.75°ECorsicana Marl — 32.93°N, 96.11°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 29.43°N, 98.43°WSärdal Beds — 56.75°N, 12.63°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 6.02°EGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.68°EPierre Shale — 45.75°N, 101.13°WPierre Shale — 44.38°N, 102.57°WPierre Shale — 45.52°N, 100.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WNew Egypt — 39.80°N, 75.09°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°WGulpen — 50.76°N, 5.79°EGulpen — 50.65°N, 5.58°EKemp Clay — 32.10°N, 96.47°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WPeedee — 34.40°N, 78.27°WPattenau — 47.83°N, 12.69°E

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The named rock units Belemnitella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnitella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

832 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Belemnitella, 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

36 references

Each of the 92 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. 24 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 content2

Picture of Belemnitella

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1840