Bellifusus

No picture of Bellifusus 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 Bellifusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FasciolariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 174 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 174 of 174 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 174 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 22 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 28 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 28 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 28 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 28 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 12 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

174 occurrences of Bellifusus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

174 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

24 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 34.49°N, 89.01°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WPeedee — 34.04°N, 79.80°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.07°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.49°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WKemp Clay — 32.10°N, 96.47°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMexcala — 18.16°N, 98.94°WMexcala — 17.77°N, 99.98°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°W

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The named rock units Bellifusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bellifusus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bellifusus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 156 sites for Bellifusus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

19 references

Each of the 174 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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

3D model

Source
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Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Bellifusus 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 Bellifusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941