Weichselia reticulata

Weichselia reticulata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WeichseliaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrences244–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237 Mya125.77 Mya244 Mya98 Mya

13 occurrences of Weichselia reticulata on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

7 formations

Cretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WHatira — 30.54°N, 34.73°EWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WHimatnagar — 23.63°N, 72.99°EDhrangadhra — 22.61°N, 71.22°EBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°E

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The named rock units Weichselia reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Weichselia reticulata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Weichselia reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Weichselia reticulata, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Weichselia reticulata

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No 3D scan of Weichselia reticulata 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 itWeichselia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stokes and Webb 1824)