Vaceletia progenitor
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaceletiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dictyoceratida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dictyoceratida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dictyoceratida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Vaceletia progenitor on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Pallinup Siltstone Formation · Plantagenet Group2
- Chiampo Formation1
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The named rock units Vaceletia progenitor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vaceletia progenitor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Vaceletia progenitor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Acarinina1 site
- Acarinina bullbrooki1 site
- Acarinina collactea1 site
- Anomochone1 site
- Asterocyclina1 site
- Astrosclera1 site
- Becksia1 site
- Bolidium bertii1 site
- Brachiolites1 site
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Camerospongia tuberculata1 site
- Camerospongia visentinae1 site
- Cavispongia scarpai1 site
- Chenendopora1 site
- Cibicides1 site
- Corallistes1 site
- Corallistes multiosculata1 site
- Coronispongia confossa1 site
- Craticularia1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Eurete1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Globigerinatheka senni1 site
- Globocassidulina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vaceletia progenitor, 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
2 references- Vaceletia progenitor, the first Tertiary sphinctozoan (Porifera)2
- A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics and palaeoecology1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Vaceletia progenitor 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 Vaceletia progenitor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vaceletia progenitor 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVaceletia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pickett 1982