Vatopsis

Vatopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 116 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiocene140–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132.6 Mya15.98 Mya140 Mya9 Mya

12 occurrences of Vatopsis on record, most of them in the Early 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

12 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

5 formations

Lellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°E

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The named rock units Vatopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vatopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Vatopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

629 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Vatopsis, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Vatopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vatopsis 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 itEumetulinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gründel 1980)