Victorithyris tateana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VictorithyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Eocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya23.04 Mya41.5 Mya19.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Victorithyris tateana 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

10 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

5 formations

Wilson Bluff — 30.74°S, 126.39°EWilson Bluff — 31.66°S, 128.49°EWilson Bluff — 31.65°S, 127.02°EWilson Bluff — 33.40°S, 123.85°EToolinna Limestone — 32.76°S, 123.61°EToolinna Limestone — 32.73°S, 125.03°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.99°S, 127.04°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.68°S, 129.00°EWerillup — 34.98°S, 118.05°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.68°S, 127.02°E

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The named rock units Victorithyris tateana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Victorithyris tateana and its relatives

Eocene

Where Victorithyris tateana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Victorithyris tateana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Victorithyris tateana 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 Victorithyris tateana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Victorithyris tateana 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 itVictorithyris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1880)