Vitorfus
No picture of Vitorfus 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 Vitorfus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaturnalinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
24 occurrences of Vitorfus 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
24 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Vitorfus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vitorfus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Vitorfus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Crucella messinae4 sites
- Pseudodictyomitra4 sites
- Alievium superbum3 sites
- Archaeodictyomitra3 sites
- Cavaspongia antelopensis3 sites
- Crucella cachensis3 sites
- Dictyomitra formosa3 sites
- Kozurium3 sites
- Orbiculiforma3 sites
- Patellula3 sites
- Pseudoaulophacus putahensis3 sites
- Stichomitra communis3 sites
- Xitus3 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum carrierensis2 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum praelongum2 sites
- Cassideus2 sites
- Crolanium2 sites
- Dictyodedalus2 sites
- Eostichomitra2 sites
- Halesium2 sites
- Napora2 sites
- Napora durhami2 sites
- Paronaella2 sites
- Patellula heroica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Vitorfus, 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
6 references- Biochronology an Paleontology of Mid-Cretaceous Radiolarians from Northern Apennines (Italy) and Betic Cordillera (Spain)13
- Lower cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Great Valley sequence and Franciscan complex, California coast ranges4
- The Radiolarian biotic response during OAE2. A high resolution study across the Bonarelli Level at Bottaccione (Gubbio, Italy)3
- First evidence of the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary event (CTBE) in the Alakircay Nappe of the Antalya Nappes, southwest Turkey2
- Turonian silicified sediments in the Czorsztyn succession of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)1
- Campanian Radiolaria from DSDP Site 313, Mid-Pacific Mountains1
Each of the 24 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 Vitorfus 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 Vitorfus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vitorfus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSaturnalinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno 1977