Vanuxemia

Vanuxemia

Isakar, Mare · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CyrtodontidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 83 occurrencesOrdovician — about 83 of 83 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 83 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 11 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 12 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 13 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 15 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 14 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya449.5 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

83 occurrences of Vanuxemia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

83 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

41 formations

Lexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 37.64°N, 84.66°WLexington Limestone — 37.89°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.16°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHarding — 38.00°N, 105.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.26°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.92°N, 93.02°WDecorah Shale — 44.50°N, 93.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 42.50°N, 91.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.93°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 42.81°N, 89.64°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.57°N, 84.03°WTyrone Limestone — 37.83°N, 84.55°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WAllt-Tair-Ffynnon — 52.75°N, 3.25°WBryn Siltstone — 52.93°N, 3.18°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.93°WGalena Dolomite — 42.50°N, 92.50°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Vanuxemia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vanuxemia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vanuxemia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,021 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Vanuxemia, 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

31 references

Each of the 83 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. 19 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 Vanuxemia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Isakar, Mare
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1858