Belodella

Belodella

Dr C. Giles Miller · CC0 · 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
BelodellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 1100 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 465 of 1100 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 614 of 1100 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 1100 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 1100 occurrences475–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–457 Mya — about 7 occurrences457–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–445 Mya — about 5 occurrences445–439 Mya — about 8 occurrences439–433 Mya — about 32 occurrences433–427 Mya — about 40 occurrences427–421 Mya — about 274 occurrences421–415 Mya — about 267 occurrences415–409 Mya — about 229 occurrences409–403 Mya — about 30 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 32 occurrences397–391 Mya — about 48 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 72 occurrences385–379 Mya — about 37 occurrences379–373 Mya — about 7 occurrences373–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences361–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.1 Mya372.15 Mya475 Mya295 Mya

1,100 occurrences of Belodella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

1,100 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

113 formations

Hohe Warte — 46.60°N, 12.87°ECamelford — 33.95°S, 148.82°ECamelford — 32.95°S, 148.85°ERauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°ECamelford Limestone — 32.95°S, 148.83°EVrabcha — 42.58°N, 22.72°EGarra Limestone — 32.95°S, 148.83°EMegaerella — 46.44°N, 12.87°EHamra — 56.95°N, 18.16°EHamra — 56.97°N, 18.23°EHamra — 57.13°N, 18.36°EHamra — 56.91°N, 18.14°ELa Valute — 46.62°N, 12.88°EDenay Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WHenryhouse — 34.41°N, 97.08°WHossei — 33.93°N, 6.83°WWayne — 35.47°N, 87.60°WWayne — 35.38°N, 87.95°WWayne — 35.32°N, 87.75°WWayne — 35.63°N, 87.63°WWayne — 35.02°N, 87.57°WWayne — 35.23°N, 88.15°WAlticola — 46.44°N, 12.87°EAlticola — 46.61°N, 12.87°ERauchkofel — 46.61°N, 12.94°ERauchkofel — 46.58°N, 13.13°EAlticola — 46.62°N, 12.88°EKopanina — 50.04°N, 14.33°ERoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.30°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WOued Akkrech — 33.93°N, 6.83°WSundre — 56.91°N, 18.19°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.29°ESundre — 56.91°N, 18.15°EA — 33.86°N, 6.29°WFindenig — 46.62°N, 12.88°ECape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.50°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 50.04°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Belodella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 289 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belodella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Belodella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,039 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 302 sites for Belodella, and this reads 240 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

87 references

Each of the 1,100 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. 75 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

Picture of Belodella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr C. Giles Miller
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belodella 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 itBelodellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ethington 1959