Brevibelus breviformis

Brevibelus breviformis

Cédric Bamberg · CC0 · 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
BrevibelusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 9.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 1 occurrence174–174 Mya — about 1 occurrence174–174 Mya — about 1 occurrence174–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–172 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–172 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–171 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences180.9 Mya170.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Brevibelus breviformis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

15 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

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EDalichai — 36.27°N, 54.10°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Brevibelus breviformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brevibelus breviformis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Brevibelus breviformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Brevibelus breviformis, 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

3 references

Each of the 15 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Brevibelus breviformis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Cédric Bamberg
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brevibelus breviformis 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 itBrevibelus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

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