Volirhynchia tommasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolirhynchiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Volirhynchia tommasi on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
19 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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 Volirhynchia tommasi 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.
Volirhynchia tommasi and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Volirhynchia tommasi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Mentzelia mentzeli16 sites
- Costirhynchopsis mentzeli15 sites
- Coenothyris kraffti14 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis13 sites
- Coenothyris vulgaris13 sites
- Tetractinella trigonella12 sites
- Balatonites11 sites
- Sulcatinella incrassata11 sites
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis9 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis8 sites
- Koeveskallina paleotypus6 sites
- Decurtella decurtata5 sites
- Homoeorhynchia5 sites
- Schwagerispira schwageri5 sites
- Balatonites balatonicus3 sites
- Balatonites egregius3 sites
- Dinarispira avarica3 sites
- Norites3 sites
- Schwagerispira mojsisovicsi3 sites
- Volirhynchia vivida3 sites
- Costispiriferina manca2 sites
- Proavites2 sites
- Sinucosta pectinata2 sites
- Spirigera forojulensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Volirhynchia tommasi, 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
5 references- The Pelsonian brachiopod fauna of the Balaton Highland15
- New stratigraphy of the Pelsonian Substage at Köveskál (Middle Triassic, Balaton Highland, Hungary)1
- Middle Triassic rhynchonellids from the Balaton Highlands (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary)1
- Brachiopoden und Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias von Bosnien, Dalmatien, und Venetien [Brachiopods and bivalves of the Triassic of Bosnia, Dalmatia and Veneto]1
- Brachiopoden der alpinen Trias1
Each of the 19 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
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No picture of Volirhynchia tommasi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Volirhynchia tommasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volirhynchia tommasi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVolirhynchia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1890)