Weltrichia
No picture of Weltrichia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Weltrichia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BennettitalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 92 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
36 occurrences of Weltrichia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
36 occurrences- Early Triassic3%
- Late Triassic33%
- Early Jurassic14%
- Middle Jurassic23%
- Late Jurassic23%
- Early Cretaceous4%
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
13 formations
- Saltwick Formation · Ravenscar Group6
- Santa Clara Formation · Barranca Group5
- Molteno Formation3
- Rajmahal Formation3
- Bhuj Formation3
- Steierdorf Formation2
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The named rock units Weltrichia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Weltrichia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Weltrichia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
376 taxa- Nilsonia13 sites
- Cycadolepis12 sites
- Taeniopteris12 sites
- Cladophlebis11 sites
- Pseudoctenis11 sites
- Pagiophyllum10 sites
- Pterophyllum9 sites
- Ptilophyllum9 sites
- Coniopteris8 sites
- Equisetites8 sites
- Otozamites8 sites
- Sphenobaiera8 sites
- Equisetum7 sites
- Sagenopteris7 sites
- Williamsonia7 sites
- Zamites7 sites
- Anomozamites6 sites
- Brachyphyllum6 sites
- Clathropteris6 sites
- Elatocladus6 sites
- Ginkgoites6 sites
- Hausmannia6 sites
- Nilssoniopteris6 sites
- Sagenopteris colpodes6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Weltrichia, 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
19 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils5
- Nuevo ensayo de un panorama de la paleoecologia de comunidades de la tafoflora Santa Clara (Triasico Tardio, Sonora)5
- Table 35 Molteno vegetative genera, phytosociological table3
- Early Jurassic land flora of the Getic Nappe3
- The Jurassic Flora of Yorkshire3
- Triassic Floras of Eurasia2
- Palaeobotany and petrology of a Middle Jurassic ironstone bed at Wrack Hills, North Yorkshire2
- Principal Components and Correspondence Analyses of Quantitative Data from a Jurassic Plant Bed2
- Lower Jurassic floras from Hope Bay and Botany Bay, Antarctica1
- The Middle Jurassic flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK1
- Preliminary report on the megafossil flora of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation1
- Late Jurassic Plants from the Oginohama Formation, Oshika Group in the Outer Zone of Northeast Japan (I)1
Each of the 36 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Weltrichia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Weltrichia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Weltrichia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBennettitales through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Braun 1843