Cavellina bellerophonella

No picture of Cavellina bellerophonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cavellina bellerophonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavellinaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Cavellina bellerophonella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

11 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

Bellerophon — 46.07°N, 13.99°EBellerophon — 46.57°N, 11.63°E

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

Cavellina bellerophonella and its relatives

Permian

Where Cavellina bellerophonella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cavellina bellerophonella, 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 11 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

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No picture of Cavellina bellerophonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cavellina bellerophonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cavellina bellerophonella 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 itCavellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crasquin 2008