Veniella
Searched as Veniella subtrapeziformis dyeri. The Paleobiology Database treats Veniella as the accepted name.
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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 most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
1 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
1 formation
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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.
Veniella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Veniella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,064 taxa- Crassatella vadosa126 sites
- Anomia argentaria123 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata119 sites
- Cyprimeria105 sites
- Nuculana103 sites
- Syncyclonema100 sites
- Cymbophora98 sites
- Crenella serica95 sites
- Granocardium95 sites
- Linearis87 sites
- Serpula86 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis82 sites
- Turritella80 sites
- Turritella vertebroides80 sites
- Idonearca capax78 sites
- Cliona77 sites
- Liopistha protexta75 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)75 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta74 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata74 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica71 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis71 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer70 sites
- Vetericardiella69 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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 of Veniella 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.
Keep going
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