Vanikoropsis

Vanikoropsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VanikoridaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Vanikoridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vanikoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Vanikoridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 103 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 30 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 8 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165.3 Mya61.66 Mya173 Mya57 Mya

30 occurrences of Vanikoropsis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

30 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

13 formations

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WAgrio — 37.33°S, 69.80°WAgrio — 37.62°S, 70.04°WAgrio — 38.00°S, 70.25°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.15°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°ENeptune Glacier — 71.75°S, 68.50°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WKimigahama — 35.72°N, 140.87°EHepingxiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°E

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The named rock units Vanikoropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vanikoropsis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Vanikoropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Vanikoropsis, 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

14 references

Each of the 30 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. 2 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 Vanikoropsis

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Vanikoropsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1876