Volsella

Volsella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 52 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 52 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 52 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 52 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 7 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 8 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Volsella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

52 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

25 formations

Pawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.15°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.35°WWoodbine — 31.85°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.67°N, 96.34°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 50.67°N, 107.73°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WModin — 41.25°N, 122.33°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°EPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EPindiga — 9.98°N, 10.93°ESantiago — 33.72°N, 117.79°WTajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°EJurong — 1.27°N, 103.85°ELincoln Creek — 46.60°N, 123.60°WNiranohama — 38.69°N, 141.50°EAshibetsu — 43.50°N, 142.00°EQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.33°W

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The named rock units Volsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volsella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Volsella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Volsella, 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

30 references

Each of the 52 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. 18 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 Volsella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Volsella 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. (Scopoli 1777)