Velates

Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod molluscs belonging to the family Neritidae.

Velates

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
VelatinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 10 of 112 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 97 of 112 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 112 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 10 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya15.98 Mya63 Mya11 Mya

112 occurrences of Velates on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

112 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

35 formations

Shekhan — 33.60°N, 71.90°EShekhan — 33.60°N, 71.51°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WGatuncillo — 9.15°N, 79.73°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.73°WJuncal — 34.60°N, 119.00°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.61°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.64°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WTiyon — 26.14°N, 67.79°ETiyon — 25.31°N, 67.90°ETroy Limestone — 18.07°N, 76.75°WTroy Limestone — 18.19°N, 76.47°WTroy Limestone — 18.32°N, 77.13°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.07°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.10°EAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WAvon Park — 29.01°N, 82.65°WTepetate — 31.30°N, 116.32°WTepetate — 24.17°N, 110.00°WLaki — 25.31°N, 67.90°EOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WChapelton — 18.33°N, 77.92°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EChorgali — 32.69°N, 72.88°EZongpu — 32.00°N, 90.00°EPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EKirthar — 26.14°N, 67.79°EGibraltar Limestone — 18.30°N, 77.25°WKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°E

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The named rock units Velates has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Velates and its relatives

Eocene

Where Velates and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Velates, 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

52 references

Each of the 112 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. 40 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 Velates

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Velates was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1810