Velatella
No picture of Velatella 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 Velatella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeritidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Velatella 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Velatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Velatella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Velatella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- ? Vascellum rivanum1 site
- Ambrosea nitida1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Caryocorbula1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Crassostrea subtrigonalis1 site
- Dentonia leveretti1 site
- Euspira1 site
- Fulpia1 site
- Levicerithium basicostae1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Mactra1 site
- Nerita ornata1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Ostrea glabra1 site
- Ostrea soleniscus1 site
- Parmicorbula1 site
- Pharodina1 site
- Protarca1 site
- Pyrgulifera1 site
- Sanoarca (Sanoarca)1 site
- Sanoarca grandis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Velatella, 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
2 references- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas1
- Invertebrate paleontology of southern plans of Alberta1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Velatella 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 Velatella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Velatella 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNeritidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1873)