Vaccinites sulcatus

Vaccinites sulcatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VaccinitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Life habit
semi-infaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 45 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 6 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85.7 Mya – 83.6 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

45 occurrences of Vaccinites sulcatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

45 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

6 formations

Milas — 37.38°N, 27.47°EMilas — 37.34°N, 27.56°EMilas — 37.21°N, 27.95°EMilas — 37.14°N, 28.02°EMilas — 37.32°N, 28.18°EMilas — 37.37°N, 28.27°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.88°EBey Daglari — 37.07°N, 30.22°ELokman — 40.63°N, 35.77°EUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°E

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The named rock units Vaccinites sulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vaccinites sulcatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Vaccinites sulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Vaccinites sulcatus, 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

23 references

Each of the 45 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Vaccinites sulcatus

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vaccinites sulcatus 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 itVaccinites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Defrance 1821