Vellamo
No picture of Vellamo was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Vellamo itself, so it was not used. 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 Vellamo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClitambonitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
172 occurrences of Vellamo 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
172 occurrences- Ordovician99%
- Silurian1%
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
42 formations
- Kahula Formation12
- Vaureal Formation9
- Ellis Bay Formation · Jolliet Group9
- Vasalemma Formation8
- Kõrgessaare Formation6
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group4
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The named rock units Vellamo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vellamo and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Vellamo and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
898 taxa- Platystrophia16 sites
- Sowerbyella16 sites
- Strophomena15 sites
- Leptaena13 sites
- Illaenus11 sites
- Virucrinus kegelensis11 sites
- Parastrophina10 sites
- Ristnacrinus marinus10 sites
- Hemicosmites9 sites
- Onniella9 sites
- Sampo9 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra8 sites
- Clinambon anomalus8 sites
- Craniops8 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis8 sites
- Paucicrura rogata8 sites
- Platystrophia dentata8 sites
- Porambonites8 sites
- Rafinesquina trentonensis8 sites
- Rhynchotrema8 sites
- Strophomena billingsi8 sites
- Dinorthis pectinella7 sites
- Eospirigerina7 sites
- Hindella umbonata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 146 sites for Vellamo, 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
33 references- Über Klitamboniten34
- The Ordovician Clitambonitidine Brachiopod Genus Vellamo in Estonia28
- Rukovodyashchaya fauna brakhiopod ordovikskikh otlozhenij severo-sapadnoy chasti russkoj platformy23
- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia11
- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction10
- Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia8
- Anticosti Island, Québec7
- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia5
- The geology of the Baltic Republics4
- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station4
- Pecularities of the lithology and fauna of the early Katian (Ordovician) in the Lithuanian facies zone3
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area3
Each of the 172 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. 21 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- etelatapiolanlukio
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Vellamo was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Vellamo itself, so it was not used.
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 Vellamo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itClitambonitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1930