Belone

Belone is a genus of needlefish common in brackish and marine waters mainly found in the eastern Atlantic ocean to Mediterranean and Black Sea, as well. It is one of ten genera in the family Belonidae.

Belone

Krüger · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
BelonidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Beloniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Beloniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Beloniformes

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.1–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–2.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.3–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33.9 Mya3.6 Mya38.4 Mya1.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Belone on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

17 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

2 formations

Yazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WFinikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°E

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The named rock units Belone has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belone and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Belone and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Belone, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 content2

Picture of Belone

Credit
Krüger
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Belone belone · UF:Fish:208518

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBelonidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1816