Belorhaphe

No picture of Belorhaphe was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Belorhaphe firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 487 million years on record.

The record covers at least 529 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences549–531 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences531–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence529 Mya41.03 Mya549 Mya28 Mya

2 occurrences of Belorhaphe on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

Ezkaba Sandstone — 42.82°N, 1.67°WPusa Shale — 39.67°N, 5.03°W

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

Belorhaphe and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Belorhaphe and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Belorhaphe, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Belorhaphe was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Belorhaphe firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fuchs 1895