Vittaticella elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatenicellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Vittaticella elegans on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Vittaticella elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vittaticella elegans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vittaticella elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Caleschara denticulata2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Crisia2 sites
- Lichenopora2 sites
- <Microbes>1 site
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acar1 site
- Adeonellopsis australis1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Annectocyma1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Arachnopusia acanthoceros1 site
- Arachnopusia terminata1 site
- Arca noae1 site
- Bactridium ellipticum1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata1 site
- Barbatia (Obliquarca)1 site
- Caberea grandis1 site
- Calappa heberti1 site
- Callista1 site
- Calloporina decorata1 site
- Calpensia1 site
- Cancer styriacus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Vittaticella elegans, 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
3 references- Victorian Lower Pliocene Bryozoa. Part 12
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)1
- Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of Hungary1
Each of the 4 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 Vittaticella elegans 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 Vittaticella elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vittaticella elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCatenicella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Busk 1852)