Vaugonia utahensis
No picture of Vaugonia utahensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Vaugonia utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaugoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 9.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Vaugonia utahensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
13 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Vaugonia utahensis 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.
Vaugonia utahensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Vaugonia utahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Camptonectes stygius7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Pronoella uintahensis7 sites
- Camptonectes6 sites
- Crinoidea6 sites
- Plagiostoma5 sites
- Isognomon4 sites
- Liostrea strigilecula4 sites
- Modiolus4 sites
- Trigonia4 sites
- Anthozoa3 sites
- Cylindrobullina3 sites
- Nucula3 sites
- Rhabdocolpus viriosus3 sites
- Astarte meeki2 sites
- Plicatula2 sites
- Tylostoma2 sites
- Astarte1 site
- Cossmannea imlayi1 site
- Ctenostreon1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Lopha engelmanni1 site
- Lucina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Vaugonia utahensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 13 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Vaugonia utahensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Vaugonia utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vaugonia utahensis 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 itVaugonia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Imlay 1964