Belonostomus cinctus
No picture of Belonostomus cinctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Belonostomus cinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BelonostomusPBDB
- 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Belonostomus cinctus 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes Formation · White Chalk Group1
- Lezennes Chalk Formation1
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The named rock units Belonostomus cinctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Belonostomus cinctus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Belonostomus cinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- ? Neorhombolepis punctatus1 site
- "Aipichthys" nuchalus1 site
- "Coelodus" fimbriatus1 site
- "Lepidotes" pustulatus1 site
- "Pycnodus" scrobiculatus1 site
- Acrognathus boops1 site
- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Acrotemnus faba1 site
- Anomoeodus angustus1 site
- Anomoeodus pauciseriale1 site
- Anomoeodus willetti1 site
- Apateodus lanceolatus1 site
- Apateodus striatus1 site
- Apsopelix anglicus1 site
- Aulolepis typus1 site
- Berycopsis elegans1 site
- Caproberyx superbus1 site
- Cimolichthys levesiensis1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli1 site
- Ctenothrissa radians1 site
- Ctenothrissa typus1 site
- Dercetidae1 site
- Dercetis elongatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Belonostomus cinctus, 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
2 references- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- Catalogue des poissons fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Nord de la France1
Each of the 2 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 Belonostomus cinctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Belonostomus cinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Belonostomus cinctus 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 itBelonostomus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1837