Wanneriidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlenelloideaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 515.3 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 505.3 Mya.
66 occurrences of Wanneriidae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
66 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
18 formations
- Sekwi Formation20
- Bastion Formation8
- Browns Pond Formation7
- Kinzers Formation6
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group6
- Buelna Formation · Bonnia-Olenellus Group2
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The named rock units Wanneriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wanneriidae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Wanneriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
260 taxa- Wanneria17 sites
- Hyolithellus micans14 sites
- Olenellus13 sites
- Botsfordia caelata11 sites
- Conotheca australiensis10 sites
- Discinella micans10 sites
- Trilobita10 sites
- Echinodermata9 sites
- Davidonia taconica8 sites
- Elliptocephala asaphoides8 sites
- Wanneria walcottana8 sites
- Elliptocephala logani7 sites
- Hyolithes7 sites
- Hyolithes americanus7 sites
- Archaeocyatha6 sites
- Chancelloriidae6 sites
- Davidonia rostrata6 sites
- Insolitotheca communis6 sites
- Olenellus roddyi6 sites
- Pelagiella primaeva6 sites
- Setatella significans6 sites
- Asperconella gloriae5 sites
- Bactrotheca emmonsi5 sites
- Calodiscus lobatus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Wanneriidae, 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
26 references- Lower Cambrian trilobites from the Sekwi Formation type section, northwestern Canada14
- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland10
- Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia6
- New olenelloid trilobites from the Northwest Territories, Canada5
- Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Caborca Region, Sonora, Mexico - physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleocurrent studies, and regional relations4
- Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians4
- The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting2
- Systematic revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)2
- Cavity-dwelling organisms in Lower Cambrian patch reefs from southern Labrador2
- An occurrence of the Scottish trilobite Olenellus lapworthi Peach and Horne, 1892 in the early Cambrian Forteau Formation (Labrador Group) Hawkes Bay, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland, Canada1
- A trilobite fauna in a storm bed in the Poleta Formation (Dyeran, Lower Cambrian), western Nevada, U.S.A.1
- Burgess Shale-type fossils from a Lower Cambrian shallow-shelf sequence in northwestern Canada1
Each of the 66 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Wanneriidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Wanneriidae 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 itOlenelloidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hupé 1952)