Vasum haitensis
Volutella haitensis is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vasidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VasumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
33 occurrences of Vasum haitensis 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
33 occurrencesThese 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
12 formations
- Gurabo Formation8
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group7
- Baitoa Formation5
- Pirabas Formation2
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group2
- La Rosa Formation2
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The named rock units Vasum haitensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vasum haitensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vasum haitensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
841 taxa- Anadara6 sites
- Architectonica nobilis6 sites
- Barbatia marylandica6 sites
- Conus demiurgus6 sites
- Conus sulculus6 sites
- Pitaria6 sites
- Scaphander6 sites
- Turbinella6 sites
- Acteocina5 sites
- Arcinella draconis5 sites
- Conus5 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)5 sites
- Cubitostrea rugifera5 sites
- Drillia5 sites
- Globularia fischeri5 sites
- Lirophora5 sites
- Melongena5 sites
- Modulus5 sites
- Natica (Natica)5 sites
- Olivella5 sites
- Orthaulax gabbi5 sites
- Persististrombus aldrichi5 sites
- Polystira5 sites
- Strioterebrum5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Vasum haitensis, 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
12 references- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda)6
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy5
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions5
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida4
- Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - III. Two new species of Vasum (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with comments on Vasum haitense (Sowerby)3
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils3
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones2
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia1
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan1
- Some Venezuelan Mollusks: Part 21
- Fosseis Terciarios Do Brazil1
Each of the 33 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. 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 content0
No picture of Vasum haitensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vasum haitensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vasum haitensis 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itVasum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1850)