Bellairsia gracilis
No picture of Bellairsia gracilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellairsia gracilis itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bellairsia gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BellairsiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bellairsia gracilis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group1
- Kilmaluag Formation · Great Estuarine Group1
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The named rock units Bellairsia gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellairsia gracilis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Bellairsia gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Borealestes serendipitus2 sites
- Caudata2 sites
- Cteniogenys2 sites
- Eupantotheria2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Marmorerpeton kermacki2 sites
- Marmoretta oxoniensis2 sites
- Pleurosternidae2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Scincomorpha2 sites
- Stereognathus ooliticus2 sites
- Theriosuchus2 sites
- Wareolestes rex2 sites
- Acrodus1 site
- Actinistia1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Allotheria1 site
- Amioidea1 site
- Amphitheria1 site
- Amphitherium1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bellairsia gracilis, 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
2 references- Synchrotron tomography of a stem lizard elucidates early squamate anatomy1
- Crown group lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Middle Jurassic of the British Isles1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Bellairsia gracilis · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 12679
No picture of Bellairsia gracilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellairsia gracilis itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bellairsia gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBellairsia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans 1998