Vermicularia

Vermicularia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae.

Vermicularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
wormsnailPBDB
Sits inside
VermiculariinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 161 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 161 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 161 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 161 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 161 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 161 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 161 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 161 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesMiocene — about 42 of 161 occurrencesPliocene — about 42 of 161 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 161 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–150 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 111 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka249 Mya0 Mya

161 occurrences of Vermicularia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

161 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

51 formations

Gurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WRifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°E

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The named rock units Vermicularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vermicularia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Vermicularia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,631 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Vermicularia, and this reads all 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

66 references

Each of the 161 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. 54 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 content2

Picture of Vermicularia

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itVermiculariinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799