Belophos

Belophos

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudotominaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37.71 Mya27.3 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Belophos on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

2 formations

Angahook — 38.38°S, 144.25°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°E

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The named rock units Belophos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belophos and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Belophos and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Belophos, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 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. 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 Belophos

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belophos 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPseudotominae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1901