Verticillites

Verticillites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VerticillitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Verticillitida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Verticillitida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Verticillitida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 141 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous237–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences226–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence227.3 Mya85.7 Mya237 Mya81 Mya

8 occurrences of Verticillites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

8 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

3 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.81°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EAravis — 45.92°N, 6.52°E

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The named rock units Verticillites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Verticillites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Verticillites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Verticillites, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Verticillites

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iDigBio
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Verticillites 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 itVerticillitinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Defrance 1829