Welwitschiapites tenuis
No picture of Welwitschiapites tenuis 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 Welwitschiapites tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WelwitschiapitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
6 occurrences of Welwitschiapites tenuis 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Welwitschiapites tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Welwitschiapites tenuis and its relatives
PermianWhere Welwitschiapites tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
373 taxa- Cyclobaculisporites minutus5 sites
- Cyclogranisporites gondwanensis5 sites
- Laevigatosporites4 sites
- Leiotriletes4 sites
- Sulcatisporites4 sites
- Vesicaspora4 sites
- Decussatisporites lucifer3 sites
- Densipollenites indicus3 sites
- Faunipollenites varius3 sites
- Gondwanipollenites decorus3 sites
- Hennellysporites diversiformis3 sites
- Hindipollenites oblongus3 sites
- Horriditriletes curvibaculosus3 sites
- Indospora3 sites
- Lahirites parvus3 sites
- Lahirites rarus3 sites
- Lophotriletes3 sites
- Lophotriletes rectus3 sites
- Lunatisporites3 sites
- Microfoveolatispora3 sites
- Platysaccus3 sites
- Plicatipollenites indicus3 sites
- Punctatisporites3 sites
- Striatites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Welwitschiapites tenuis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 Welwitschiapites tenuis 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 Welwitschiapites tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Welwitschiapites tenuis 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 itWelwitschiapites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bharadwaj and Salujha 1964