Vesicocaulis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VesicocauliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 61 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 34 of 61 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 26 of 61 occurrencesLate Triassic285–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 11 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 18 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 12 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 8 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya227.3 Mya285 Mya214 Mya

61 occurrences of Vesicocaulis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

61 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

18 formations

Wetterstein Limestone — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWetterstein Limestone — 49.00°N, 18.48°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.42°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.57°N, 20.45°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°ELechkogel — 47.43°N, 13.67°ELechkogel — 47.55°N, 14.52°ELechkogel — 46.67°N, 14.85°ELechkogel — 48.00°N, 16.23°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°ERaminger Limestone — 48.95°N, 19.25°ERaminger Limestone — 49.22°N, 19.57°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EWettersteinkalk — 47.40°N, 11.38°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°ELechkogel — 46.17°N, 13.92°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°ECalcari — 39.80°N, 16.12°ERaminger Dolomite — 48.67°N, 18.33°EWetterstein reef limestone — 48.55°N, 20.73°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°ESan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°E

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The named rock units Vesicocaulis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vesicocaulis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Vesicocaulis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Vesicocaulis, 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

21 references

Each of the 61 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Vesicocaulis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Vesicocaulis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vesicocaulis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVesicocauliinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ott 1967