Bellatara

Bellatara

Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

26 occurrences of Bellatara on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

26 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

9 formations

Inglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.64°WInglis Limestone — 29.05°N, 82.45°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.46°WAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WKirkkavak — 39.63°N, 32.29°EKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°EAvon Park limestone — 29.25°N, 82.73°WAvon Park limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WEptachorion — 40.12°N, 21.22°EMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WKoyagi — 33.00°N, 129.50°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°EGheldeis — 9.23°N, 50.67°E

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The named rock units Bellatara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bellatara and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bellatara and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bellatara, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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 Bellatara

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itCerithiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Strand 1928)