Vexillum (Costellaria)

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 68 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesMiocene — about 31 of 68 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 68 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 68 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Vexillum (Costellaria) 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

68 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

20 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ETuatua Limestone — 16.72°S, 178.88°ETuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°EPoivre — 20.83°S, 115.42°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°EMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°ETubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.75°N, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Vexillum (Costellaria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vexillum (Costellaria) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vexillum (Costellaria) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,330 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Vexillum (Costellaria), 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

26 references

Each of the 68 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. 14 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

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No picture of Vexillum (Costellaria) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vexillum (Costellaria), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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. (Swainson 1840)