Volutospina conicoturrita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Athleta (Volutospina)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Volutospina conicoturrita 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
9 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
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group9
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The named rock units Volutospina conicoturrita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Volutospina conicoturrita and its relatives
EoceneWhere Volutospina conicoturrita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Cardita costaenodulosis9 sites
- Crepidula falconeri9 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis9 sites
- Fossularca africana9 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata9 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum8 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis8 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera8 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis8 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni8 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa7 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata7 sites
- Glycymeris nigeriensis7 sites
- Strepsidura spirata7 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum6 sites
- Cominella douvillei6 sites
- Notocorbula rugosa6 sites
- Phacoides eaglesomei6 sites
- Poirieria calcitrapa6 sites
- Rectangularca africana6 sites
- Surcula africana6 sites
- Turritella mauryana6 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata5 sites
- Hilda turriculata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Volutospina conicoturrita, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Volutospina conicoturrita 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 Volutospina conicoturrita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volutospina conicoturrita 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 itAthleta (Volutospina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922