bellerophon

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English

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

Etymology

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From the genus name.

Noun

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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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