Vesicocaulis alpinus

No picture of Vesicocaulis alpinus 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 Vesicocaulis alpinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VesicocaulisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 8 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242 Mya226.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Vesicocaulis alpinus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

10 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

4 formations

Wetterstein Limestone — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWetterstein Limestone — 49.00°N, 18.48°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.42°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.57°N, 20.45°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWettersteinkalk — 47.40°N, 11.38°E

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The named rock units Vesicocaulis alpinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vesicocaulis alpinus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Vesicocaulis alpinus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Vesicocaulis alpinus, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 Vesicocaulis alpinus 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 Vesicocaulis alpinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vesicocaulis alpinus 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 itVesicocaulis through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ott 1967