Volutoderma averillii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolutodermaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
33 occurrences of Volutoderma averillii on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
33 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
9 formations
- Jalama Formation8
- Chico Formation · Asuncion Group5
- Ladd Formation5
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group3
- Pigeon Point Formation2
- Haslam Formation2
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The named rock units Volutoderma averillii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Volutoderma averillii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Volutoderma averillii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
231 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii18 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana16 sites
- Biplica obliqua11 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians9 sites
- Popenoella hemphilli9 sites
- Corbicula astartoides8 sites
- Anomia jalama7 sites
- Baculites chicoensis7 sites
- Clisocolus dubius7 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa6 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana6 sites
- Dentalium6 sites
- Lispodesthes rotundatus6 sites
- Ampullina concipio5 sites
- Bullamirifica ainiktos5 sites
- Cymbophora gabbiana5 sites
- Legumen ooides5 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi5 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris5 sites
- Anchura falciformis4 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi4 sites
- Cymbophora stantoni4 sites
- Euspira4 sites
- Inoceramus chicoensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Volutoderma averillii, 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
11 references- Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous Jalama Formation, Santa Barbara County, California8
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast7
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California5
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results3
- The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province2
- Volutoderminae (Gastropoda: Volutidae) of Coniacian through Maastrichtian age from the North American Pacific Slope2
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity2
- Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- Notes on some Upper Cretaceous Volutidæ, with descriptions of new species and a revision of the groups to which they belong1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
Each of the 33 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
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No picture of Volutoderma averillii 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 Volutoderma averillii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volutoderma averillii 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 itVolutoderma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)