Vinella

Vinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VinellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bryozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bryozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 364 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 11 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrences460–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence450.5 Mya85.7 Mya460 Mya76 Mya

11 occurrences of Vinella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

11 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

10 formations

Corryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WTucumcari — 35.11°N, 103.33°WSkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°ERägavere — 59.35°N, 26.36°EGehrden — 52.28°N, 10.20°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°EJupiter — 49.15°N, 62.54°W

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The named rock units Vinella 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.

Vinella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vinella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

488 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Vinella, 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

10 references

Each of the 11 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 Vinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vinella 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 itVinellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1890