Voluta

Voluta is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Voluta

Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolutinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 111 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 31 of 111 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 111 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 111 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 35 of 111 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 111 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 22 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

111 occurrences of Voluta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

111 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

49 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EAlexandria — 32.98°S, 27.58°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.06°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.72°N, 93.22°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WScripps — 32.90°N, 117.21°WScripps — 32.76°N, 117.19°WJan Juc — 38.35°S, 144.30°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WDomanda — 29.97°N, 70.12°EHangu — 33.53°N, 71.06°ETalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°W

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The named rock units Voluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Voluta and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Voluta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,405 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Voluta, 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

52 references

Each of the 111 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. 40 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 content2

Picture of Voluta

Credit
Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Giravolt
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVolutinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeaus 1758