Virgiscalpellum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VirgiscalpellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 32 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–103 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence119.57 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

32 occurrences of Virgiscalpellum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

11 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WRipley — 33.46°N, 88.77°WGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.65°EUpper Chalk — 51.06°N, 1.80°WUpper Chalk — 51.04°N, 1.74°WUpper Chalk — 51.06°N, 1.73°WDuck Creek — 33.85°N, 97.09°WDuck Creek — 33.82°N, 96.53°WMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°EGoodland — 32.72°N, 97.51°WCampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WPrairie Bluff — 33.40°N, 88.78°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.60°N, 88.19°WBlack Creek — 34.48°N, 78.41°W

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The named rock units Virgiscalpellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgiscalpellum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Virgiscalpellum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Virgiscalpellum, 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

14 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. 2 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 Virgiscalpellum 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 Virgiscalpellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Virgiscalpellum 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 itVirgiscalpellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Withers 1935