Virgiscalpellum beisseli
No picture of Virgiscalpellum beisseli 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 Virgiscalpellum beisseli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VirgiscalpellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Virgiscalpellum beisseli on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Virgiscalpellum beisseli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Virgiscalpellum beisseli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Virgiscalpellum beisseli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Diotascalpellum fossula2 sites
- Anomoeodus1 site
- Applinocrinus cretaceus1 site
- Ceratostreon1 site
- Cretalamna1 site
- Cretiscalpellum glabrum1 site
- Cretiscalpellum striatum1 site
- Cyclothyris globata1 site
- Filograna1 site
- Flustra1 site
- Gavelinella1 site
- Gavellinopsis voltzianus1 site
- Globotruncana1 site
- Glomerula gordialis1 site
- Goupillaudina1 site
- Hadranderaster1 site
- Hemiaster (Bolbaster)1 site
- Isocrinus1 site
- Lunulites1 site
- Metopaster1 site
- Micraster1 site
- Neithea1 site
- Ophiuroidea1 site
- Parella cf. navaroanna1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Virgiscalpellum beisseli, 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
2 references- Aperçu sur les bioclastes d'une craie campanienne de Charente-Maritime1
- Upper Cretaceous cirripedes from N.E. Belgium1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Virgiscalpellum beisseli 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 Virgiscalpellum beisseli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Virgiscalpellum beisseli 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 itVirgiscalpellum through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bosquet and Müller 1857)