Bellerophon squamatus
No picture of Bellerophon squamatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 squamatus, 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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Bellerophon squamatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Bellerophon squamatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellerophon squamatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Bellerophon squamatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Linoproductus lineatus6 sites
- Bellerophon triangularis5 sites
- Euphemites apertus5 sites
- Euphemites indicus5 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi5 sites
- Costiferina indica4 sites
- Derbyia hemisphaerica4 sites
- Minodentalium herculeum4 sites
- Soleniscus avellanoides4 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga4 sites
- Strobeus primogenius4 sites
- Waagenella jonesianus4 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) blanfordianus3 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) orientalis3 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis3 sites
- Athyrella hybrida2 sites
- Bellerophon affinis2 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis2 sites
- Cleiothyridina globulina2 sites
- Derbyia2 sites
- Derbyia hemisphaerica radiata2 sites
- Guizhouspira sequens2 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis2 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Bellerophon squamatus, 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- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range9
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part II3
Each of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bellerophon squamatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 squamatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellerophon squamatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1880