Bellerophon graphicus

No picture of Bellerophon graphicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellerophon graphicus 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 Bellerophon graphicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BellerophonPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophon
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophon
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophon
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 13 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya276.8 Mya325 Mya264 Mya

14 occurrences of Bellerophon graphicus 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

14 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

Madera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WLaborcita — 32.97°N, 105.91°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WZeandale Limestone — 37.63°N, 96.37°WBar B — 32.87°N, 107.27°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WDeer Creek — 39.00°N, 95.41°WFort Scott Limestone — 38.63°N, 90.32°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°W

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

Bellerophon graphicus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bellerophon graphicus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bellerophon graphicus, 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 14 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 content0

No picture of Bellerophon graphicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellerophon graphicus 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 Bellerophon graphicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bellerophon graphicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itBellerophon through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moore 1941)