Wendyichthys dicksoni
No picture of Wendyichthys dicksoni 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 Wendyichthys dicksoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WendyichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Wendyichthys dicksoni on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group13
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The named rock units Wendyichthys dicksoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wendyichthys dicksoni and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Wendyichthys dicksoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Fubarichthyiformes12 sites
- Aesopichthys erinaceus8 sites
- Falcatus falcatus7 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus7 sites
- Paratarrasius hibbardi7 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci6 sites
- Discoserra pectinodon6 sites
- Kalops monophrys5 sites
- Actinopterygii4 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus4 sites
- Lineagruan judithi4 sites
- Phanerosteon4 sites
- Phanerosteonoidei4 sites
- Wendyichthys lautreci4 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon3 sites
- Caridosuctor populosum3 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni3 sites
- Kalops diophrys3 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi3 sites
- Paphosiscus circulocaudus3 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae3 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Wendyichthys dicksoni, 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- The Rhadinichthyids (paleoniscoid actinopterygians) from the Bear Gulch limestone of Montana (USA, Lower Carboniferous)10
- Fish diversity of the Bear Gulch Limestone, Namurian, Lower Carboniferous of Montana, USA3
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Wendyichthys dicksoni 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 Wendyichthys dicksoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wendyichthys dicksoni 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 itWendyichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund and Poplin 1997