Vexillum

Vexillum is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Costellariidae.

Vexillum

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CostellariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Costellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Costellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Costellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 266 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 266 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 266 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 266 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 266 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 88 of 266 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 66 of 266 occurrencesPleistocene — about 62 of 266 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 17 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 18 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 20 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 30 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 47 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 91 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

266 occurrences of Vexillum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

266 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

64 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ELower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ETuatua Limestone — 16.72°S, 178.88°ETuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°EGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°E

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The named rock units Vexillum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vexillum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vexillum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Vexillum, 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 266 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 content3

Picture of Vexillum

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bractechlamys vexillum · usnm:invertebrate zoology:613675

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798