Belemnopsis tanganensis

Belemnopsis tanganensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelemnopsisPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya149.2 Mya165.8 Mya144.6 Mya

15 occurrences of Belemnopsis tanganensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

15 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

6 formations

Sabaki — 3.10°S, 39.78°EAblation Point — 70.75°S, 68.50°WChangamwe Shale — 4.03°S, 39.63°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°EBihin Limestone — 10.17°N, 45.13°EMeragalleh Limestone — 10.17°N, 45.13°E

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The named rock units Belemnopsis tanganensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnopsis tanganensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Belemnopsis tanganensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Belemnopsis tanganensis, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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 Belemnopsis tanganensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belemnopsis tanganensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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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What may have been alongside itBelemnopsis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Futt 1894)