Volzeia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolzeiidaePBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 50 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 184.2 Mya.
60 occurrences of Volzeia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
60 occurrencesThese 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
19 formations
- Cassian Formation10
- Karchowice Formation · Muschelkalk Group2
- Pantokrator limestone Formation2
- Volzeia Beds Formation2
- Kattamardzanaj Formation2
- Ghalilah Formation · Elphinstone Group2
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The named rock units Volzeia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Volzeia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Volzeia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
885 taxa- Margarophyllia capitata13 sites
- Margarosmilia confluens13 sites
- Margarosmilia zieteni13 sites
- Remismilia sublaevis12 sites
- Omphalophyllia10 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni9 sites
- Myriophyllum badioticum8 sites
- Shamovella obscura8 sites
- Margarophyllia7 sites
- Margarophyllia crenata7 sites
- Margarosmilia7 sites
- Protoheterastrea leonhardi7 sites
- Celyphia submarginata6 sites
- Colospongia dubia6 sites
- Guembelastraea guembeli6 sites
- Omphalophyllia boletiformis6 sites
- Retiophyllia6 sites
- Solenopora6 sites
- Toechastraea6 sites
- Tubiphytes6 sites
- Baccanella5 sites
- Margarosmilia septanectens5 sites
- Montlivaltia5 sites
- Montlivaltia radiciformis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Volzeia, 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
38 references- Classification and correlation of Triassic limestones in Sikhote-Alin on the basis of corals7
- Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol6
- Triassic Reefs in Slovenia5
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia4
- Middle Triassic corals from W. Guangxi and S. Guizhou2
- Stratigraphic levels of Triassic limestones of the South Sikhote-Alin (on the basis of coral study)2
- Upper Triassic (Carnian-lowermost Norian) corals from the Pantokrator Limestone of Hydra (Greece)2
- Monographie des Madreporaires du Jurassique Inferieur du Maroc (Monograph on Lower Jurassic Corals of Morocco)2
- The Middle Triassic scleractinia-like coral Furcophyllia from the Pamir Mountains1
- Personal data1
- Carnian corals from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, western Carpathians, Slovakia1
- Middle Triassic evolution of the northern peri-Tethys area as influenced by early opening of the Tethys Ocean1
Each of the 60 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. 26 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 content0
No picture of Volzeia 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 Volzeia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volzeia 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 itVolzeiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuif 1966