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Bellerophon (genus)

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P. D. de Montfort. 1808. Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offfrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Coquilles univalves, cloisonnées
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These animals were probably quick moving (for gastropods), relying on speed to avoid predators and, when this was not possible, withdrawing deeply into the shell.
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The genus is characterised by a shell which is globose, convolute, and planispiral (symmetrically coiled). The shell of
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show something resembling a "waterline" about halfway up the shell, suggesting that a large amount of the
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Knight J. B., Cox L. R., Keen A. M., Batten R. L., Yochelson E. L. & Robertson R. 1960.
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is often a couple of centimeters in maximum dimension. The external surface is smooth,
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and foot were exposed and covered the outside of the shell, as in the extant
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Late Mississippian gastropods of the Chainman Shale, west-central Utah
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Gastropod phylogenetics: progress, problems and implications
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Gordon, Mackenzie, Jr. & Yochelson, Ellis L. 1987.
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Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families
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Bellerophon jeffersonensis
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda (?)
Bellerophontida
Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon
Montfort
Synonyms
genus
extinct
molluscs
Gastropoda
Monoplacophora

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