Vestinautilus kesslerae

No picture of Vestinautilus kesslerae 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 Vestinautilus kesslerae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VestinautilusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 339.9 Mya and 335.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Vestinautilus kesslerae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

Zrigat — 31.05°N, 3.67°W

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The named rock units Vestinautilus kesslerae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vestinautilus kesslerae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Vestinautilus kesslerae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Vestinautilus kesslerae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Vestinautilus kesslerae 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 Vestinautilus kesslerae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vestinautilus kesslerae 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 itVestinautilus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korn and Klug 2023