Gemmula vaningeni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GemmulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 8.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
30 occurrences of Gemmula vaningeni 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
30 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
9 formations
- Gatun Formation12
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group9
- Tuira Formation2
- Castilletes Formation2
- Culebra Formation1
- Picaderos Formation · Santiago Group1
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The named rock units Gemmula vaningeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gemmula vaningeni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gemmula vaningeni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
490 taxa- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis14 sites
- Polystira12 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana12 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis11 sites
- Architectonica nobilis10 sites
- Bivetiella dariena10 sites
- Lepidopecten scissuratus10 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis10 sites
- Antillophos (Rhipophos) metuloides9 sites
- Bellucina actinus9 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira9 sites
- Anadara8 sites
- Clathrodrillia gatunensis8 sites
- Conus molis8 sites
- Natica bolus8 sites
- Oliva gatunensis8 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)7 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena7 sites
- Hyotissa haitensis7 sites
- Metula gabbi7 sites
- Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana7 sites
- Tectonatica7 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis7 sites
- Volvarina leander7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Gemmula vaningeni, 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
7 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).15
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida6
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia2
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Olsson, 19641
Each of the 30 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 content1

Picture of Gemmula vaningeni
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gemmula vaningeni 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 itGemmula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)