bellerophon

See also: Bellerophon

English

A fossil of a bellerophron. (Bellerophon umbilicalis). Paläontologische Museum München, Germany.

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

bellerophon (plural bellerophons)

(paleontology) Any of the genus †Bellerophon of fossil gastropod shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

Further reading

Bellerophon (mollusc) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bellerophontoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Bellerophon fossils on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
“bellerophon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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