Vitrinella

Vitrinella

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VitrinellidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 124 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 124 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 124 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 124 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 124 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 124 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 124 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 15 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 54 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

124 occurrences of Vitrinella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

124 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

39 formations

Byram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WNanjemoy — 37.65°N, 77.17°WArén — 42.13°N, 1.09°EHepingxiang — 26.06°N, 99.44°EHepingxiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WLower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°E

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The named rock units Vitrinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vitrinella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vitrinella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Vitrinella, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

45 references

Each of the 124 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 Vitrinella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Vitrinella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1850