Volutoderma blakei

Volutoderma blakei

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85.7 Mya – 83.6 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Volutoderma blakei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

6 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

3 formations

Williams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WWilliams — 33.71°N, 117.71°WChatsworth — 34.22°N, 118.66°WPleasants Sandstone — 33.65°N, 117.68°W

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The named rock units Volutoderma blakei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Volutoderma blakei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Volutoderma blakei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Volutoderma blakei, 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

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Volutoderma blakei

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

No 3D scan of Volutoderma blakei 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.

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What may have been alongside itVolutoderma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul and Squires 2008