Wellerella delicatula

Wellerella delicatula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WellerellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya276.8 Mya304.5 Mya264.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Wellerella delicatula 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

4 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

3 formations

Foraker Limestone — 39.37°N, 95.88°WForaker Limestone — 38.91°N, 96.06°WWood Siding — 40.38°N, 95.66°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°W

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

Wellerella delicatula and its relatives

Permian

Where Wellerella delicatula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Wellerella delicatula, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Wellerella delicatula

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Wellerella delicatula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itWellerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Condra 1932