Veenia

Veenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachyleberidinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesPaleocene107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.2 Mya60.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Veenia 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

21 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

6 formations

Jagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.82°EJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°Wfahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ELa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WLoncoche — 37.56°S, 69.83°W

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The named rock units Veenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Veenia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Veenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Veenia, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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 Veenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Veenia 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 itTrachyleberidinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butler and Jones 1958