Volsellina carinata

No picture of Volsellina carinata 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 Volsellina carinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolsellinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 20 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Volsellina carinata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

20 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

1 formation

Bellerophon — 46.57°N, 11.64°EBellerophon — 46.58°N, 11.70°EBellerophon — 46.64°N, 11.84°EBellerophon — 46.68°N, 11.91°E

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

Volsellina carinata and its relatives

Permian

Where Volsellina carinata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Volsellina carinata, 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 20 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Volsellina carinata 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 Volsellina carinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Volsellina carinata 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.

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What may have been alongside itVolsellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prinoth and Posenato 2023