{"id":2699,"date":"2013-12-01T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=2699"},"modified":"2014-10-03T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:18:02","slug":"bellerophontida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellerophontida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"height: 250px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 20px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sinuites_cancellatus_250pxW.png?w=605&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 600px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Mollusca\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/\"> Mollusca <\/a><br \/>\nClass: <a title=\"Gastropoda\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/\">Gastropoda<\/a><br \/>\nOrder: Bellerophontida (Ulrich &#038; Scofield, 1897)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Families: <a title=\"Bellerophontidae\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/bellerophontidae\/\">Bellerophontidae<\/a>, <a title=\"Sinuitidae\" href=\"  https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/sinuitidae\/\"> Sinuitidae<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nEarly Cambrian &#8211; Early Triassic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nBellerophontida is an extinct order of slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivores.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of the Order<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Closely coiled and rarely slightly asymmetrical<\/li>\n<li>Usually contain selenizone generated by median labral sinus or slit<\/li>\n<li>Variable shell wall thickness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<br \/>\n<em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1 (1960)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shell most commonly isostrophic, rarely slightly asymmetrical; mostly closely coiled, but in some genera cyrtiform; predominantly with median labral sinus or slit, or tremata, probably exhalant in function and usually generating a selenizone; shell wall of variable thickness, no evidence of nacre; operculum unknown; presence of paired and equal ctenidia and osphradia, also of single pair of retractor muscles, inferred (latter from muscle scars); nothing known of other soft parts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Bellerophontidae<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/bellerophontidae\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bucania-simulatrix-250-black.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Sinuitidae<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/sinuitidae\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sinuites_cancellatus_250pxB.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Bellerophontida (Ulrich &#038; Scofield, 1897) Cincinnatian Families: Bellerophontidae, Sinuitidae Geologic Range Early Cambrian &#8211; Early Triassic Common Paleoecology Bellerophontida is an extinct order of slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivores. Characteristics of the Order Closely coiled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/gastropoda\/bellerophontida\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bellerophontida<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2697,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-Hx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699\/revisions\/9500"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}