Belonostomus longirostris

Belonostomus longirostris

Canadian Museum of Nature · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 71 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 71 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

71 occurrences of Belonostomus longirostris 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

71 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

15 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 — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°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°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WQuiriquina — 33.36°S, 71.68°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WAllen — 40.73°S, 67.17°WKaskapau — 55.71°N, 117.64°WWapiti — 55.07°N, 118.69°W

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

Belonostomus longirostris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Belonostomus longirostris, 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

22 references

Each of the 71 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Belonostomus longirostris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Canadian Museum of Nature
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belonostomus longirostris 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 itBelonostomus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lambe 1902)