Westergaardodina

Westergaardodina

Heinsalu, Heljo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaconodontidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 461.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 77 of 84 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 7 of 84 occurrencesOrdovician509–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–504 Mya — about 1 occurrence504–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 7 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 9 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 8 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 7 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 7 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 7 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 10 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 10 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 7 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya468 Mya509.1 Mya460.2 Mya

84 occurrences of Westergaardodina on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

84 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

22 formations

Alum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.41°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EKushan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EAlum Shale — 59.78°N, 10.50°EFengshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EFengshan — 42.06°N, 126.71°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°WSablinskaya — 59.69°N, 30.88°ELadoga — 59.73°N, 30.45°ESnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WSnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°WGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WChangshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°EGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EAndrarum Limestone — 55.02°N, 14.92°EAlum — 55.00°N, 15.00°ETsitre — 59.44°N, 27.21°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WLomashkin — 60.29°N, 29.48°E

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The named rock units Westergaardodina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Westergaardodina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Westergaardodina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Westergaardodina, 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

20 references

Each of the 84 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. 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Westergaardodina

Source
GBIF
Credit
Heinsalu, Heljo
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itParaconodontida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1959