Veniella undata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VeniellaPBDB
- 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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
18 occurrences of Veniella undata 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
18 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Veniella undata 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.
Veniella undata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Veniella undata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
285 taxa- Baluchicardia8 sites
- Mesocallista8 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis7 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus6 sites
- Granocardium6 sites
- Nevenulora (Jagonoma)6 sites
- Parmicorbula6 sites
- Phacoides6 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis6 sites
- Trochoceramus6 sites
- Ambigostrea villei5 sites
- Endocostea regularis5 sites
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
- Oscillopha dichotoma5 sites
- Plicatula locardi5 sites
- Trigonarca schweinfurthi5 sites
- Veniella forbesiana5 sites
- Ambigostrea tripolitana4 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum4 sites
- Astartemya4 sites
- Callucina4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Crassatella rothii4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Veniella undata, 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
5 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages10
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna4
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria2
- Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Baba Formation at São Nicolau, Angola1
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
Each of the 18 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Veniella undata 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 Veniella undata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Veniella undata 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 itVeniella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1852)