Vermetus

Vermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.

Vermetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VermetidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Vermetidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vermetidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Vermetidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 223 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 223 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 223 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 223 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 223 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 223 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 223 occurrencesMiocene — about 49 of 223 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 223 occurrencesPleistocene — about 112 of 223 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 25 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 146 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

223 occurrences of Vermetus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

223 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

59 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WCarbonera — 24.22°N, 102.82°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WCilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WMulege — 27.07°N, 111.97°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°EPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WLower Sangkulirang Marl — 0.81°N, 117.85°E

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The named rock units Vermetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 114 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vermetus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vermetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Vermetus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

102 references

Each of the 223 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. 90 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 Vermetus

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No 3D scan of Vermetus 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

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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. Daudin 1800