Vokesula smithvillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VokesulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Corbulidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Corbulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
52 occurrences of Vokesula smithvillensis 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
52 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
8 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group18
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group11
- Stone City Formation10
- Laredo Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group3
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The named rock units Vokesula smithvillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vokesula smithvillensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Vokesula smithvillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
629 taxa- Pseudoliva vetusta25 sites
- Buccitriton texanum23 sites
- Ficus23 sites
- Turritella23 sites
- Ancilla staminea22 sites
- Athleta petrosa21 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis21 sites
- Pachecoa20 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii20 sites
- Fusimitra19 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis19 sites
- Pyramidella19 sites
- Cadulus18 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni18 sites
- Gegania antiquata18 sites
- Eosurcula moorei17 sites
- Microdrillia17 sites
- Latirus moorei16 sites
- Ringicula trapaquara16 sites
- Bonellitia15 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta15 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus15 sites
- Cochlespira15 sites
- Michela trabeatoides15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Vokesula smithvillensis, 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
7 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals12
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda12
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)9
- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas7
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico5
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs4
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
Each of the 52 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
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No picture of Vokesula smithvillensis 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 Vokesula smithvillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vokesula smithvillensis 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 itVokesula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harris 1919)