Vasum tuberculatum

Rhinovasum tuberculatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vasidae.

Vasum tuberculatum

Broderip · 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
VasumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Vasum tuberculatum 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

4 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

3 formations

Gurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°W

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The named rock units Vasum tuberculatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vasum tuberculatum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vasum tuberculatum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Vasum tuberculatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Vasum tuberculatum

Credit
Broderip
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vasum tuberculatum 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.

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 itVasum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1873