Waylandella

Waylandella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HealdiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 42 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 10 of 42 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 32 of 42 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 2 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 19 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 7 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences351.9 Mya254.14 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

42 occurrences of Waylandella 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

42 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

10 formations

Holmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EMaokou — 32.62°N, 105.86°EGraham — 32.40°N, 98.89°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WNew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.70°EChuanshan — 29.90°N, 119.55°ESappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WMcAlester — 35.58°N, 95.32°W

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The named rock units Waylandella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Waylandella and its relatives

Permian

Where Waylandella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Waylandella, 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

9 references

Each of the 42 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 content1

Picture of Waylandella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHealdiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.