Wellerella rotunda
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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 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
3 occurrences of Wellerella rotunda 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
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The named rock units Wellerella rotunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wellerella rotunda and its relatives
PermianWhere Wellerella rotunda and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Rhynchopora taylori3 sites
- Bellerophontoidea2 sites
- Cancrinella phosphatica2 sites
- Stacheoceras antiquum2 sites
- Timaniella pseudocamerata2 sites
- Xestotrema pulchrum2 sites
- Bathymyonia nevadensis1 site
- Composita1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyclolobus walkeri1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Dielasma spatulatum1 site
- Dielasmatidae1 site
- Fenestelloidea1 site
- Glossothyropsis magna1 site
- Hustedia meekana plicatella1 site
- Hustedia shumardi1 site
- Leioclema1 site
- Leiorhynchoidea cloudi1 site
- Liosotella magnirugosa1 site
- Liosotella rugosa1 site
- Neochonetes (Neochonetes) foshagi1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Omphalotrochidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Wellerella rotunda, 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- Late Permian ammonoids in the Inyo Range, California, and their significance2
- Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Wellerella rotunda 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 Wellerella rotunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wellerella rotunda 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.
Keep going
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. Cooper 1953