Vicarya

Vicarya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PotamididaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 32 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence110.1 Mya11.63 Mya115 Mya3 Mya

32 occurrences of Vicarya on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

32 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

19 formations

Miyara — 24.51°N, 124.26°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°EKunugidaira — 36.83°N, 145.75°EKunugidaira — 37.00°N, 140.75°EPaluxy — 32.76°N, 97.80°WPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.33°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°EKoyagi — 33.00°N, 129.50°EShiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°EKannondake — 33.05°N, 130.48°EYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°ETainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EGhazij — 30.16°N, 67.72°EChikubetsu — 44.02°N, 141.67°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°EBand-e- Chaker — 26.68°N, 57.93°EHashima — 32.69°N, 129.81°EKawachi — 30.39°N, 130.95°EUenohira — 34.93°N, 136.28°E

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The named rock units Vicarya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vicarya and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vicarya and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Vicarya, 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

20 references

Each of the 32 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Vicarya

Credit
Show_ryu
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. d'Archiac and Haime 1854