Volutocorbis elevata

Volutocorbis elevata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Athleta (Volutocorbis)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Volutocorbis elevata 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

13 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

6 formations

London Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°E

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The named rock units Volutocorbis elevata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volutocorbis elevata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Volutocorbis elevata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

701 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Volutocorbis elevata, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Volutocorbis elevata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Volutocorbis elevata 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 itAthleta (Volutocorbis) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1840)