Wattia texana
No picture of Wattia texana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wattia texana firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WattiaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Wattia texana on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
- Khuff Formation1
- Arroyo Formation · Clear Fork Group1
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The named rock units Wattia texana 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.
Wattia texana and its relatives
PermianWhere Wattia texana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Pseudovoltzia liebeana2 sites
- Taeniopteris2 sites
- Artisia1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Cathaysiopteris1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Culmitzschia sp.1 site
- Cycadales1 site
- Dicranophyllum1 site
- Dioonitocarpidium1 site
- Discinites1 site
- Gymnospermae1 site
- Neocalamites1 site
- Palaeonitella1 site
- Pecopteris1 site
- Podozamites1 site
- Samaropsis1 site
- Taeniopters sp.1 site
- Ullmannia1 site
- Walchia1 site
- Zeilleropteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Wattia texana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- An Early Permian flora with Late Permian and Mesozoic affinities from north-central Texas1
- Late Permian plants including Charophytes from the Khuff Formation of Saudi Arabia1
- Lower Permian plants from the Arroyo Formation in Baylor County, north-central Texas1
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
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No picture of Wattia texana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wattia texana firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
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 itWattia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mamay 1967