Vanikoro

Vanikoro is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vanikoridae.

Vanikoro

Récluz, 1843 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
VanikoridaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Vanikoridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vanikoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Vanikoridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 23 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.7–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences137.05 Mya129 ka146 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Vanikoro on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

23 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

13 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WParkini Mudstone — 25.50°N, 63.33°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.04°WMishash — 30.17°N, 35.00°EMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°ENanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°EBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.33°W

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The named rock units Vanikoro has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vanikoro and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vanikoro and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

705 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Vanikoro, 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

19 references

Each of the 23 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. 7 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 Vanikoro

Credit
Récluz, 1843
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vanikoro 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.

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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What may have been alongside itVanikoridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quoy and Gaimard 1832