Bellerophon jeffersonensis
No picture of Bellerophon jeffersonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellerophon jeffersonensis 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 jeffersonensis, 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bellerophon jeffersonensis 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Logan Formation · Waverly Group2
- Glen Park Formation1
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The named rock units Bellerophon jeffersonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellerophon jeffersonensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Bellerophon jeffersonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Vorticina cyrtolites3 sites
- Agnesia prosseri1 site
- Bellerophon ulrichi1 site
- Euphemites subglobosus1 site
- Glabrocingulum stellaeformis1 site
- Globozyga reticulata1 site
- Loxonema pikensis1 site
- Mourlonia missouriensis1 site
- Mourlonia textus1 site
- Naticopsis paucivolutus1 site
- Neilsonia uninodocarinata1 site
- Orthonychia jeffersonensis1 site
- Orthonychia ungula1 site
- Palaeocapulus acutirostre1 site
- Palaeocapulus equilateralis1 site
- Platyceras encloides1 site
- Platyceras evolutus1 site
- Platyceras glenparkensis1 site
- Pseudomulceodens cancellatus1 site
- Ptomatis proteiforme1 site
- Retispira waverliensis1 site
- Spiroscala solida1 site
- Worthenia strigillata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bellerophon jeffersonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Mississippian rostroconch molluscs from Ohio1
- Mississippian formations of central and southern Ohio1
- Kinderhook faunal studies, IV. The fauna of the Glen Park limestone1
Each of the 3 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 jeffersonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bellerophon jeffersonensis 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 jeffersonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellerophon jeffersonensis 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. Weller 1906