Vicinocerithium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BatillariidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Batillariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Batillariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Batillariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
33 occurrences of Vicinocerithium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
33 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Vicinocerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vicinocerithium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Vicinocerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
547 taxa- Tympanotonos10 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata9 sites
- Benoistia7 sites
- Crommium intermedia7 sites
- Globularia5 sites
- Melanopsis ancillaroides5 sites
- Peraubium vidali5 sites
- Sassia5 sites
- Sigmesalia5 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina4 sites
- Ampullina4 sites
- Angaria4 sites
- Bicorbula4 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta4 sites
- Clava (Semivertagus)4 sites
- Hipponix4 sites
- Pirenella4 sites
- Potamides4 sites
- Seila4 sites
- Sigatica hantoniensis4 sites
- Tibia4 sites
- Tremppotamides tactospira4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Tylochilus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Vicinocerithium, 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
8 references- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae12
- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain7
- Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods of mangrove-fringed coasts (South-central Pyrenees, Spain)5
- Early Eocene Caenogastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Haymana-Polatli Basin, Central Anatolia (Turkey): taxonomy and palaeoecology5
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons1
- Karagyuleva, 19641
- Faune Paleocene de la region de Sivrihisar-Polatli1
Each of the 33 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
Media content1
Picture of Vicinocerithium
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vicinocerithium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBatillariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1910)