Vicaryella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PotamididaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
19 occurrences of Vicaryella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
19 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
8 formations
- Kunugidaira Formation4
- Nishikurosawa Formation3
- Yoshino Formation · Katsuta Group2
- Tsurikake Formation2
- Lower Sandstone Formation · Bihoku Group1
- Furanui Formation1
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The named rock units Vicaryella 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.
Vicaryella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vicaryella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Anadara7 sites
- Crassostrea7 sites
- Euspira meisensis6 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)5 sites
- Macoma5 sites
- Teredo5 sites
- Cernina fluctuata nakamurai4 sites
- Corbula (Solidicorbula)4 sites
- Fissidentalium4 sites
- Sinum ineptum4 sites
- Tateiwaia4 sites
- Vicarya4 sites
- Acila (Acila) submirabilis3 sites
- Cardilia3 sites
- Cerithidea3 sites
- Chicoreus asanoi3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Cultellus izumoensis3 sites
- Cyclina3 sites
- Gyrineum3 sites
- Meretrix3 sites
- Mya3 sites
- Olivella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Vicaryella, 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
11 references- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan4
- Plant and molluscan fossil assemblages rom the Lower Miocene Kunugidaira Formation in the southern part of the Joban coal-field3
- Molluscan fossils from the Nishikurosawa Formation, Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Japan3
- Neogene Molluscan Fauna in Hokkaido : Part II. Description of the Okushiri Fauna Associated with Vicarya, from Okushiri Island, Southwest Hokkaido2
- Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis1
- Miocene tropical sandy and rocky bottom molluscan assemblages of the Shimo Formation, Uchiura Group, Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan1
- New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture1
- The mixed sea area of warm- and cold-water molluscs of the Japanese early Middle Miocene - The case study in the Furanui Formation, mid-Hokkaido, Japan1
- Geloina/Telescopium bearing molluscan assemblages from the Katsuta Group, Okayama Prefecture - with special reference to brackish faunal zonation in the Miocene of Japan1
- New Miocene mollusca from the Katsuta Group, Nagi-cho, Okayama Prefecture, SW Japan1
- On the associated occurrence of Vicarya and Vicaryella in the Japanese Tertiary, with the first description of a Paleogene species of Vicarya from Japan1
Each of the 19 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 Vicaryella
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- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Show_ryu
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vicaryella 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 itPotamididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yabe and Hatai 1938