Vanikoropsis arktowskiana

Vanikoropsis arktowskiana

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66.5 Mya61.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Vanikoropsis arktowskiana 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

10 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

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°W

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

Vanikoropsis arktowskiana and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Vanikoropsis arktowskiana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Vanikoropsis arktowskiana, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Vanikoropsis arktowskiana

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Vanikoropsis arktowskiana 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 itVanikoropsis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilckens 1910)