bellerophon

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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 gastropod shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

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