Vicetia sowerbyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Gisortia (Vicetia)PBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
4 occurrences of Vicetia sowerbyi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Vicetia sowerbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vicetia sowerbyi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Vicetia sowerbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Indovoluta humberti2 sites
- Cardium galaticum1 site
- Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Deltoidonautilus lemoinei1 site
- Gosavia multidentata1 site
- Heligmotenia molli1 site
- Linthia sudanensis1 site
- Natica1 site
- Plesiolampas paquieri1 site
- Tibia pseudomokattamensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vicetia sowerbyi, 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
3 references- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District2
- The age of the so-called Danian fauna from Tibet1
- Contributions à la connaissance géologique des colonies françaises. VIII - Sur quelques fossiles du Tilemsi (Soudan)1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Vicetia sowerbyi 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 Vicetia sowerbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vicetia sowerbyi 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 itGisortia (Vicetia) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schilder 1930)