Watznaueria

Searched as Ellipsagelosphaera britannica. The Paleobiology Database treats Watznaueria as the accepted name.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WatznaueriaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences174.7 Mya72.2 Mya187 Mya64 Mya

16 occurrences of Watznaueria on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

16 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

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EMarrat — 24.25°N, 46.08°ESaldeño — 33.98°S, 69.71°WSaldeño — 34.30°S, 69.72°WTuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.75°N, 46.08°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Watznaueria 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.

Watznaueria and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Watznaueria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

700 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 196 sites for Watznaueria, 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

Each of the 16 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 Watznaueria 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 Watznaueria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Watznaueria 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 itWatznaueriaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noël 1965