Ventriculites

Ventriculites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VentriculitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 80 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 72 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 80 occurrencesEocene164–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 12 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 8 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 9 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 11 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 11 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences143.1 Mya48.07 Mya164 Mya39 Mya

80 occurrences of Ventriculites 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

80 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

15 formations

Ahlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 51.97°N, 10.40°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WUmm al-Rua’us — 26.43°N, 50.11°EBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 50.67°N, 17.95°EIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EMiria — 23.02°S, 114.08°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EPattenau — 47.83°N, 12.69°ELower Chalk — 51.21°N, 2.12°W

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The named rock units Ventriculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ventriculites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

836 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Ventriculites, 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

22 references

Each of the 80 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. 10 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 Ventriculites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ventriculites 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mantell 1822