Wedekindella

Searched as Parodiceras. The Paleobiology Database treats Wedekindella as the accepted name.

No picture of Wedekindella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Wedekindella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParodoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 318.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 312.8 Mya.

Devonian — about 8 of 13 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous395–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence387.95 Mya318.6 Mya395 Mya311 Mya

13 occurrences of Wedekindella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 formations

McCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°W

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The named rock units Wedekindella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wedekindella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Wedekindella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Wedekindella, 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 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. 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 Wedekindella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Wedekindella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Wedekindella 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 itParodoceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1913