Vitrinella leeta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitrinellaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Vitrinella leeta 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Vitrinella leeta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vitrinella leeta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Vitrinella leeta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis2 sites
- Eocernina hannibali2 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2 sites
- Abdunia sp.1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Ambloxus olequaensis1 site
- Antigona kelloggi1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Astrolepis sp.1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Callista (Costacallista) soledadensis1 site
- Calwellia1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cardiomya russelli1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Corbicula williamsoni1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Crepidula (Spirocrypta) pileum1 site
- Crypholestes1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Diodora stillwaterensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vitrinella leeta, 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- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- A Middle Eocene marine molluscan assemblage form the usually nonmarine Friars Formation, San Diego County, California1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Vitrinella leeta 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 Vitrinella leeta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vitrinella leeta 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 itVitrinella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hanna 1927