Vermes

Vermes ("vermin/vermes") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals.

No picture of Vermes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vermes firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At least 379 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 484.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrences492–479 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences479–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–287 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–191 Mya — about 15 occurrences150–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence473.1 Mya93.9 Mya492 Mya82 Mya

24 occurrences of Vermes on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

24 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

7 formations

Portland — 42.61°N, 72.55°WPortland — 41.52°N, 72.70°WPortland — 41.57°N, 72.64°WPortland — 42.61°N, 72.55°WPortland — 41.73°N, 72.66°WPassaic — 40.57°N, 75.10°WTurners Falls — 42.61°N, 72.53°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°ECarlile Shale — 35.49°N, 105.89°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.72°S, 146.48°E

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The named rock units Vermes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vermes and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Vermes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Vermes, 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

10 references

Each of the 24 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. 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

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No picture of Vermes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vermes firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758