Volvarinella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarginellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.04 Mya.
12 occurrences of Volvarinella on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group4
- Banc à verrins Formation4
- Bohio Formation2
- Waihao Greensand Formation1
- Stillwater Mudstone Formation · Blue Bottom Group1
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The named rock units Volvarinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Volvarinella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Volvarinella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
556 taxa- Caryocorbula striata5 sites
- Costacallista laevigata5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Elliptotellina tellinella5 sites
- Nipteraxis5 sites
- Pitar parisiensis5 sites
- Rimella fissurella5 sites
- Acteon4 sites
- Clavilithes parisiensis4 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans4 sites
- Eopleurotoma4 sites
- Glycymeris4 sites
- Haustator4 sites
- Limopsis4 sites
- Notocorbula rugosa4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Omalaxis bifrons4 sites
- Ringicula4 sites
- Sigmesalia4 sites
- Sigmesalia multisulcata4 sites
- Xenophora4 sites
- Amauropsina canaliculata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Volvarinella, 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
5 references- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe4
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex4
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae)2
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand: Paleoecology and Systematics1
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Volvarinella 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 Volvarinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Volvarinella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarginellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Habe 1951