Velesunio

Velesunio

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyriinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 34.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka35.3 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Velesunio on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Wyandotte — 18.77°S, 144.85°E

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The named rock units Velesunio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Velesunio and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Velesunio and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Velesunio, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Velesunio

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Velesunio 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1934