Voluta lawsoni
No picture of Voluta lawsoni 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 Voluta lawsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolutaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Voluta lawsoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Voluta lawsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Voluta lawsoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Voluta lawsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Balanophyllia variabilis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cordiera gracillima1 site
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica1 site
- Cyclinella elevata1 site
- Dentalium stramineum1 site
- Exilia perkinsiana1 site
- Falsifusus marysvillensis1 site
- Gyrineum californicum1 site
- Muricopsis whitneyi1 site
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis1 site
- Tellina sutterensis1 site
- Trochocyathus striatus1 site
- Turris monolifera1 site
- Venericor planicosta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Voluta lawsoni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Voluta lawsoni 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 Voluta lawsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Voluta lawsoni 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 itVoluta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dickerson 1913