Volynites

No picture of Volynites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Volynites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolynitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculita
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculita
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 414.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesDevonian431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya414.6 Mya431.1 Mya410.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Volynites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

5 formations

Mulde Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EBorshchov and Chortkov horizons — 51.42°N, 23.33°EKoudiat ed Diab — 32.65°N, 7.75°WNagaoling — 22.76°N, 108.30°E

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The named rock units Volynites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Volynites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Volynites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Volynites, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Volynites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Volynites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Volynites 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 itVolynitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ljaschenko 1957