Volvulella gluma
No picture of Volvulella gluma 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 Volvulella gluma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolvulellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Volvulella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volvulella
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volvulella
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Volvulella gluma on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Volvulella gluma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Volvulella gluma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Volvulella gluma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Cylichna temblorensis7 sites
- Nassarius (Catilon) arnoldi7 sites
- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis7 sites
- Turritella ocoyana7 sites
- Antillophos posunculensis6 sites
- Crepidula rostralis6 sites
- Epitonium (Nitidiscala) tedfordi6 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) kerniana6 sites
- Pyramidella (Longchaeus) cooperi6 sites
- Turricula buwaldana6 sites
- Turricula piercei6 sites
- Balcis petrolia5 sites
- Calyptraea filosa5 sites
- Cancellaria dalli5 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus5 sites
- Eulima gabbiana5 sites
- Mangelia (Notocytharella) kernensis5 sites
- Megasurcula howei5 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) posuncula5 sites
- Olivella (Olivella) ischnon5 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) lincolnensis5 sites
- Sinum scopulosum5 sites
- Terebra (Strioterebrum) stirtoni5 sites
- Turricula ochsneri5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Volvulella gluma, 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
2 references- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California6
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California2
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Volvulella gluma 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 Volvulella gluma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volvulella gluma 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 itVolvulella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keen 1943