Belonorhynchus

No picture of Belonorhynchus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Belonorhynchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaurichthyidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Saurichthyidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Saurichthyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244.4 Mya215.38 Mya249.3 Mya210.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Belonorhynchus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

6 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

5 formations

Besano — 45.89°N, 8.90°ETerrigal — 33.43°S, 151.34°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.94°EKapp Toscana — 74.43°N, 19.21°E

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

Belonorhynchus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Belonorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Belonorhynchus, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 content0

No picture of Belonorhynchus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Belonorhynchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belonorhynchus 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 itSaurichthyidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1858