Vitrinella oldroydi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitrinellaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Vitrinella oldroydi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
12 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
4 formations
- Unnamed Formation8
- San Pedro Sand Formation1
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation1
- Quaternary terrace Formation1
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The named rock units Vitrinella oldroydi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vitrinella oldroydi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vitrinella oldroydi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
717 taxa- Antisabia panamensis11 sites
- Epilucina californica11 sites
- Amphissa versicolor10 sites
- Caecum californicum10 sites
- Callianax biplicata10 sites
- Cumingia californica10 sites
- Dendropoma lituella10 sites
- Eulithidium pulloides10 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum10 sites
- Lacuna (Epheria) unifasciata10 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata10 sites
- Lottia limatula10 sites
- Lottia scabra10 sites
- Alia carinata9 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale9 sites
- Crepidula adunca9 sites
- Diodora aspera9 sites
- Fartulum dextroversum9 sites
- Glans carpenteri9 sites
- Lirularia optabilis9 sites
- Mopalia muscosa9 sites
- Mytilus californianus9 sites
- Nutricola tantilla9 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Vitrinella oldroydi, 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
5 references- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California8
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico1
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California1
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California1
Each of the 12 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 Vitrinella oldroydi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Vitrinella oldroydi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bartsch 1907