Volsellina subelliptica

Volsellina subelliptica

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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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–300 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya276.8 Mya325 Mya264 Mya

10 occurrences of Volsellina subelliptica on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

10 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

8 formations

Mattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WRed Eagle Limestone — 38.13°N, 96.33°WZeandale Limestone — 37.30°N, 96.47°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WKrebs — 37.78°N, 94.51°WBreathitt — 37.63°N, 82.65°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°W

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The named rock units Volsellina subelliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Volsellina subelliptica and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Volsellina subelliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Volsellina subelliptica, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 Volsellina subelliptica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Volsellina subelliptica 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.

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What may have been alongside itVolsellina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1867)