Variseila meeki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VariseilaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
13 occurrences of Variseila meeki on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group6
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group5
- Black Creek Formation1
- Mungo River Formation1
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The named rock units Variseila meeki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Variseila meeki and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Variseila meeki and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
614 taxa- Laxispira lumbricalis10 sites
- Turritella trilira10 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria9 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum8 sites
- Sargana stantoni8 sites
- Anomia argentaria7 sites
- Cossmannia tennesseensis7 sites
- Cylichna7 sites
- Glycymeris7 sites
- Gyrodes major7 sites
- Linearis7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
- Thylacus cretaceus7 sites
- Turritella vertebroides7 sites
- Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa7 sites
- Amuletum fasciolatum6 sites
- Aphrodina6 sites
- Cadulus6 sites
- Camptonectes6 sites
- Caveola acuta6 sites
- Cyprimeria6 sites
- Dentalium6 sites
- Ecphora proquadricostata6 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Variseila meeki, 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
8 references- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf3
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations3
- The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina1
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Variseila meeki 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 Variseila meeki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Variseila meeki 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 itVariseila through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wade 1926)