Volutomorpha

Volutomorpha

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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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 122 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 21 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 21 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 21 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 20 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya59.24 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

124 occurrences of Volutomorpha 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

124 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

32 formations

Ripley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 33.86°N, 96.83°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.09°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.51°N, 100.32°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.46°N, 9.49°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.03°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WLogbadjeck — 3.92°N, 10.04°EChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.18°N, 88.96°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WEutaw — 32.46°N, 84.99°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WMexcala — 18.16°N, 98.94°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°W

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The named rock units Volutomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volutomorpha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Volutomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Volutomorpha, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

28 references

Each of the 124 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. 16 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 Volutomorpha

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itVolutinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1876