Peratobelus
Peratobelus is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.
No picture of Peratobelus 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 Peratobelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BelemnitidaPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Peratobelus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Peratobelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Peratobelus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Peratobelus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Neohibolites3 sites
- Cymatoceras neckerianum2 sites
- Dimitobelus (Tetrabelus)2 sites
- Entolium2 sites
- Lytoceras2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Tropaeum2 sites
- Tropaeum subsimbirskense2 sites
- Acanthohoplites1 site
- Aconeceras nisoides1 site
- Ammonitida1 site
- Ammonitoceras1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Arcinella1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum1 site
- Barbatia aptiensis1 site
- Birostrina1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) striatopunctatus1 site
- Crioceratites (Emericiceras)1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dimitobelus cf. stimulus extremis1 site
- Epicheloniceras subnodosocostatum1 site
- Hypacanthoplites uhligi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Peratobelus, 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
5 references- The Cretaceous Dimitobelidae (Belemnitida) of the Antarctic Peninsula region2
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman2
- Lithostratigraphy of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous strata of eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica1
- Early Cretaceous belemnites from southern Mozambique1
- Jack and Etheridge, 18921
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Peratobelus 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 Peratobelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peratobelus 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Peratobelus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBelemnitida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.