Belonostomus

Belonostomus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AspidorhynchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 120 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 120 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 104 of 120 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 120 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 12 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 12 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 12 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 19 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 20 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145.06 Mya66 Mya154 Mya60 Mya

120 occurrences of Belonostomus 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

120 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

41 formations

Dinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.77°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.58°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.70°WOldman — 50.76°N, 111.53°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°EForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WPaluxy — 33.12°N, 97.57°WPaluxy — 31.70°N, 98.51°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.65°N, 11.31°EScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.85°N, 11.86°EAllen — 40.73°S, 67.17°WAllen — 39.78°S, 66.70°WConques — 42.09°N, 1.00°EConques — 42.09°N, 0.69°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ECalcari di Melissano — 40.10°N, 8.48°EMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 86.35°WToolebuc — 22.92°S, 140.58°EBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WQuiriquina — 33.36°S, 71.68°W

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The named rock units Belonostomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belonostomus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Belonostomus, 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

57 references

Each of the 120 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. 45 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 content2

Picture of Belonostomus

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Belonostomus muensteri · nhmuk:pal:pv or 37796

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 itAspidorhynchidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834