bellerophon

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)

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

References

• bellerophon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bellerophon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• bellerophon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bellerophon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)