Vesicocaulis reticuliformis
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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.
10 occurrences of Vesicocaulis reticuliformis 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Wetterstein Limestone Formation2
- Wetterstein Formation2
- Wetterstein Formation1
- Raminger Limestone Formation1
- Lechkogel Formation1
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The named rock units Vesicocaulis reticuliformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vesicocaulis reticuliformis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Vesicocaulis reticuliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Cryptocoelia zitteli7 sites
- Follicatena cautica7 sites
- Uvanella irregularis7 sites
- Alpinothalamia bavarica6 sites
- Solenolmia manon5 sites
- Shamovella obscura4 sites
- Baccanella floriformis3 sites
- Bacinella3 sites
- Celyphia submarginata3 sites
- Colospongia catenulata3 sites
- Ladinella porata3 sites
- Tubiphytes3 sites
- Vesicocaulis alpinus3 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Ammobaculites2 sites
- Colospongia dubia2 sites
- Endoteba2 sites
- Lamelliconus2 sites
- Macrotubus2 sites
- Nodosaria2 sites
- Ophthalmidium2 sites
- Planiinvolutina sp.2 sites
- Plexoramea cerebriformis2 sites
- Teutloporella herculea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Vesicocaulis reticuliformis, 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
4 references- Triassische Sphinctozoen aus den Westkarpaten6
- Facies and biota of Anisian to Carnian carbonate platforms in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Tyrol and Bavaria)2
- Facies and Environment of the Leckkogel Beds (Carnian; Alps)1
- Triassische Biohermkalke im östlichen Teil des slowakischen Karstes1
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 reticuliformis 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 reticuliformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vesicocaulis reticuliformis 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.
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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. Jablonsky 1972