Volsellina ornatissima
No picture of Volsellina ornatissima 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 Volsellina ornatissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolsellinaPBDB
- 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 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
7 occurrences of Volsellina ornatissima on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
7 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Volsellina ornatissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Volsellina ornatissima and its relatives
PermianWhere Volsellina ornatissima and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aperispirifer ovalis5 sites
- Tomiopsis confusus5 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli3 sites
- Fusispirifer3 sites
- Paucispinauria concava3 sites
- Aphanaia2 sites
- Echinalosia robusta2 sites
- Etheripecten latus2 sites
- Magniplicatina perflecta2 sites
- Paucispinauria paucispinosa2 sites
- Striochondria2 sites
- Cyrtella nobilis1 site
- Cythere tasmanica1 site
- Etheripecten tenuicollis1 site
- Ingelarella elegantula1 site
- Notoconularia levigata1 site
- Peruvispira1 site
- Phestia darwini1 site
- Streblopteria mortonii1 site
- Wairakispirifer microstriatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Volsellina ornatissima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia6
- Contribution to the palaeontology of the upper Palaeozoic rocks of Tasmania1
Each of the 7 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 Volsellina ornatissima 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 Volsellina ornatissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volsellina ornatissima 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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What may have been alongside itVolsellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnston 1887)