Vasum

Vasum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VasinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 128 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 128 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 128 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 51 of 128 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 128 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 27 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 23 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

128 occurrences of Vasum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

128 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

30 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WLa Rosa — 10.46°N, 71.03°WLa Rosa — 11.00°N, 69.83°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°WAlexandria — 33.82°S, 25.65°EAlexandria — 33.84°S, 25.61°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EMokattam — 30.02°N, 31.27°EJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WWarak — 19.04°N, 57.75°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°E

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The named rock units Vasum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vasum and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Vasum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Vasum, 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

43 references

Each of the 128 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. 31 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 content2

Picture of Vasum

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itVasinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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