Wareolestes rex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WareolestesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Wareolestes rex 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group1
- Kilmaluag Formation · Great Estuarine Group1
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The named rock units Wareolestes rex 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.
Wareolestes rex and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Wareolestes rex and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Bellairsia gracilis2 sites
- Borealestes serendipitus2 sites
- Caudata2 sites
- Cetiosaurus2 sites
- Cteniogenys2 sites
- Eupantotheria2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Marmorerpeton kermacki2 sites
- Marmoretta oxoniensis2 sites
- Pleurosternidae2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Scincomorpha2 sites
- Stereognathus ooliticus2 sites
- Theriosuchus2 sites
- Acrodus1 site
- Actinistia1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Allotheria1 site
- Amioidea1 site
- Amphitheria1 site
- Amphitherium1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Wareolestes rex, 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- The dentary of Wareolestes rex (Megazostrodontidae): A new specimen from Scotland and implications for morganucodontan tooth replacement1
- Diversity of triconodonts in the Middle Jurassic of Great Britain1
- A Middle Jurassic mammal bed from Oxfordshire1
Each of the 3 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 Wareolestes rex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wareolestes rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itWareolestes through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Freeman 1979