Peelerophon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TemnodiscinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 453.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician — about 28 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya453.9 Mya487.5 Mya452.1 Mya

28 occurrences of Peelerophon on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

28 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

17 formations

Saint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.53°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ESaint-Chinian — 43.48°N, 2.96°ESaint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 3.17°ESaint-Chinian — 43.42°N, 2.95°ESanta Rosita — 24.79°S, 65.38°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 63.58°WSkagen — 55.72°N, 13.32°ESepulturas — 22.92°S, 65.62°WSepulturas — 23.92°S, 65.60°WLandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ENinemile — 39.20°N, 116.44°WAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSan Lorenzo — 21.00°S, 65.00°WCardonal — 24.92°S, 65.50°WDevendeus — 25.00°S, 66.00°WLa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°ESchistes de Saint-Chinian — 43.00°N, 3.00°EKlabava — 49.77°N, 17.25°EEmanuel — 18.33°S, 125.67°EWahwah — 38.86°N, 113.46°WLiuxia — 30.25°N, 119.92°ESella — 21.35°S, 64.62°W

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

Peelerophon and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Peelerophon and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Peelerophon, 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

15 references

Each of the 28 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Peelerophon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yochelson 1982