Weeksia amplificata
No picture of Weeksia amplificata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Weeksia amplificata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WeeksiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Weeksia amplificata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group9
- Chiwapa Formation1
- Prairie Bluff Formation1
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The named rock units Weeksia amplificata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Weeksia amplificata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Weeksia amplificata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
537 taxa- Turritella trilira9 sites
- Turritella vertebroides9 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum8 sites
- Graciliala calcaris8 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria8 sites
- Beretra gracilis7 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis7 sites
- Morea marylandica7 sites
- Amuletum6 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus6 sites
- Buccinopsis solida6 sites
- Cerithium weeksi6 sites
- Creonella subangulata6 sites
- Creonella triplicata6 sites
- Drilluta distans6 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus6 sites
- Latiala lobata6 sites
- Liopeplum leioderma6 sites
- Paladmete gardnerae6 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella6 sites
- Sohliina liratus6 sites
- Thylacus cretaceus6 sites
- Amaurellina stephensoni5 sites
- Amuletum (Amuletum) dumasensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Weeksia amplificata, 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
4 references- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Weeksia amplificata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Weeksia amplificata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Weeksia amplificata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itWeeksia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wade 1926)