Volzeia subdichotoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolzeiaPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 5 of 25 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 20 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241.464 Mya205.7 Mya245.3 Mya200.5 Mya

25 occurrences of Volzeia subdichotoma 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

25 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

9 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EGhalilah — 25.78°N, 56.05°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EVolzeia Beds — 44.55°N, 135.57°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°ESchlern Dolomite — 46.57°N, 13.30°EKattamardzanaj — 37.98°N, 72.87°EMailonggang — 29.85°N, 91.63°EWengen — 46.53°N, 11.78°E

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The named rock units Volzeia subdichotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volzeia subdichotoma and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Volzeia subdichotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

732 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Volzeia subdichotoma, 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

20 references

Each of the 25 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. 8 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

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No picture of Volzeia subdichotoma 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 subdichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Volzeia subdichotoma 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 itVolzeia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)