Vaginella

Vaginella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavoliniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 93 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 93 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 80 of 93 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 93 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 10 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence27.3 Mya5.333 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

93 occurrences of Vaginella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

93 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

20 formations

Belmont — 12.48°N, 61.42°WMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.87°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.87°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WFalun de Saucats — 43.73°N, 1.03°WPakhna — 34.78°N, 32.99°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ECessole — 44.65°N, 8.23°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°ECipero Marl — 10.27°N, 61.38°WBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WFalun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WFalun de Bazas — 44.45°N, 0.48°WSaint Médard-en-Jalle Molasse — 45.40°N, 0.35°WPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°E

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The named rock units Vaginella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vaginella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vaginella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Vaginella, 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

17 references

Each of the 93 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. 5 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 Vaginella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCavoliniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1800