Belosaepia

Belosaepia is an extinct genus of cuttlefish-like cephalopod known from the Eocene.

Belosaepia

Jessica Utrup · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CephalopodaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Belosaepia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

23 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

12 formations

Lisbon — 31.83°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCane River — 31.88°N, 93.37°W

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

Belosaepia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Belosaepia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

918 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Belosaepia, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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 Belosaepia

Credit
Jessica Utrup
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Belosaepia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCephalopoda through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voltz 1830