Veniella

Veniella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 24 of 408 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 369 of 408 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 408 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 408 occurrencesEocene121–119 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 5 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 8 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 13 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 13 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 13 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 13 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 43 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 108 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 108 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 23 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya56 Mya121 Mya47 Mya

408 occurrences of Veniella 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

408 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

57 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 33.34°N, 95.40°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.16°N, 97.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 34.67°N, 78.24°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.01°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WPeedee — 34.04°N, 79.80°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 34.40°N, 78.27°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.84°N, 88.31°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.93°N, 88.52°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WMakatini — 27.36°S, 32.16°EMakatini — 27.53°S, 32.17°EMzinene — 27.90°S, 32.32°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.00°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°EDakhla — 25.00°N, 30.75°ERipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WKemp Clay — 30.27°N, 97.74°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WIndidura — 29.35°N, 101.05°WMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 40.07°N, 74.53°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°E

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The named rock units Veniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Veniella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,064 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 359 sites for Veniella, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

64 references

Each of the 408 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. 52 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 Veniella

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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What may have been alongside itArcticidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stoliczka 1870