Ventrilia rucksorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VentriliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ventrilia rucksorum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group1
- Nashua Formation · Okeechobee Group1
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Ventrilia rucksorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ventrilia rucksorum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Ventrilia rucksorum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Busycon2 sites
- Akleistostoma diegelae1 site
- Aspella1 site
- Brachysycon amoenum1 site
- Busycon carica1 site
- Busycotypus1 site
- Calusacypraea (Myakkacypraea) schnireli1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Carolinapecten solaroides1 site
- Cassis ketteri1 site
- Chicoreus1 site
- Cinctura1 site
- Conradostrea lawrencei1 site
- Dinocardium1 site
- Dolicholatirus1 site
- Hyotissa1 site
- Latirus1 site
- Lindaconus1 site
- Melongena1 site
- Monostiolum petiti1 site
- Mulinia lateralis1 site
- Murexiella1 site
- Nodipecten1 site
- Noetia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ventrilia rucksorum, 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
2 references- Petuch and Roberts, 20072
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ventrilia rucksorum 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 Ventrilia rucksorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ventrilia rucksorum 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 itVentrilia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Petuch 1994)