Velates perversus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VelatesPBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
65 occurrences of Velates perversus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
65 occurrencesThese 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
20 formations
- Shekhan Formation10
- Gatuncillo Formation6
- Juncal Formation5
- Inglis Limestone Formation · Ocala Group4
- Bateque Formation4
- Llajas Formation4
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The named rock units Velates perversus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Velates perversus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Velates perversus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
411 taxa- Campanile giganteum7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Eocernina hannibali6 sites
- Ampullella nuttalli5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Clavilithes tabulatus4 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla4 sites
- Euspatangus clevei4 sites
- Nummulites4 sites
- Pachycrommium flemingi4 sites
- Paraseraphs erraticus4 sites
- Pseudophragmina clarki4 sites
- Schizaster4 sites
- Seraphs4 sites
- Superlucina megameris4 sites
- Turritella andersoni4 sites
- Ampullina vapincana3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Campanile3 sites
- Cepatia cepacea3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
- Crommium intermedia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Velates perversus, 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
28 references- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District10
- Biostratigraphy of the Tiyon Formation (Middle Eocene) of Sind, Pakistan6
- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain5
- Karagyuleva, 19645
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.5
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico4
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California4
- New Neritidae from southwestern North America2
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California2
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Hunting Survey Corporation, LTD, 19612
- Eocene Mollusks from Citrus and Levy Counties, Florida2
Each of the 65 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. 16 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 content1
Picture of Velates perversus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)