Vulsella

Vulsella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Vulsellidae.

Vulsella

Röding, 1798 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalleidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 58 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 16 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Vulsella on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

58 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

28 formations

Marnes de Foncouverte — 43.17°N, 2.70°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EMokattam — 28.00°N, 30.75°EMokattam — 29.98°N, 31.13°EMokattam — 28.73°N, 30.92°EEl Fuqaha — 27.62°N, 36.20°EKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.17°EMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WAl Jir — 29.16°N, 16.54°EAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EZallah — 30.32°N, 13.32°EZallah — 28.88°N, 18.87°EQasr El-Sagha — 29.30°N, 30.17°ESanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.54°WSanta Susana — 34.09°N, 118.56°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°E"Green Beds" — 29.08°N, 33.07°E"Red Beds" — 29.08°N, 33.07°ETortachilla Limestone — 35.28°S, 138.48°EPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°EWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°EGaj — 26.88°N, 67.26°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°ERakoczy — 47.27°N, 23.25°EInucu — 46.85°N, 23.20°E

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The named rock units Vulsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vulsella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Vulsella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

893 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Vulsella, 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

26 references

Each of the 58 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Vulsella

Credit
Röding, 1798
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ršding 1798