Ovulum

Ovulum

RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015 · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypraeidaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 476 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences518–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–1.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499.5 Mya23.04 Mya518 Mya2 Mya

2 occurrences of Ovulum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Ysidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WSablinskaya — 59.69°N, 30.88°E

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The named rock units Ovulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ovulum and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ovulum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ovulum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ovulum

Credit
RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ovulum was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCypraeidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758