Pseudobelus

Pseudobelus is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

Pseudobelus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DuvaliidaePBDB
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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 67 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 66 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 18 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 18 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 9 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya119.57 Mya156 Mya99 Mya

67 occurrences of Pseudobelus 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

67 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

8 formations

Palnatokes Bjerg — 74.45°N, 20.14°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.55°N, 19.83°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.59°N, 19.58°WMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EKaliste — 49.03°N, 18.33°ELuckovska — 49.03°N, 18.33°EPieniny Limestone — 49.42°N, 20.30°EŠtramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°E

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The named rock units Pseudobelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudobelus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pseudobelus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Pseudobelus, 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

14 references

Each of the 67 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. 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Pseudobelus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pseudobelus 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 itDuvaliidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Blainville 1827)