Volutilithes

Volutilithes

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolutilithinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 112 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 112 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 112 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 62 of 112 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 112 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 12 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 16 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 16 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 10 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya14 Mya

112 occurrences of Volutilithes 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

112 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

33 formations

Lellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°ELogbadjeck — 3.92°N, 10.04°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMungo River — 4.48°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EClayton — 31.87°N, 85.43°WClayton — 31.60°N, 85.03°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WMutsuo — 34.35°N, 135.34°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ETepetate — 24.17°N, 110.00°WKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EGellibrand Marl — 37.77°S, 141.23°EKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°ESan Juan — 16.59°N, 92.89°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°W

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The named rock units Volutilithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volutilithes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Volutilithes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Volutilithes, 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

44 references

Each of the 112 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. 32 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

Media content1

Picture of Volutilithes

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Volutilithes 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1829