Belonechitina robusta

No picture of Belonechitina robusta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Belonechitina robusta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelonechitinaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 450.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 448.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452.8 Mya450.5 Mya460.2 Mya448.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Belonechitina robusta on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

3 formations

Valle Syncline Silt & Sandstone — 38.00°N, 6.00°WArdwell Farm — 55.22°N, 4.77°WPaekna — 59.27°N, 24.80°E

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The named rock units Belonechitina robusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Belonechitina robusta and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Belonechitina robusta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Belonechitina robusta, 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

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Belonechitina robusta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Belonechitina robusta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Belonechitina robusta 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 itBelonechitina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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