Westonia nyapungensis

No picture of Westonia nyapungensis 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 Westonia nyapungensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WestoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCambrian508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508.5 Mya496.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Westonia nyapungensis 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

20 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

2 formations

Tindall Limestone — 13.33°S, 130.63°ETindall Limestone — 13.50°S, 131.07°ETindall Limestone — 13.88°S, 131.15°ETindall Limestone — 13.82°S, 131.35°ETindall Limestone — 14.25°S, 131.38°ETindall Limestone — 14.50°S, 132.17°ETindall Limestone — 13.68°S, 131.33°ETindall Limestone — 13.55°S, 131.18°ETindall Limestone — 14.42°S, 132.25°EGiles Creek Dolostone — 23.61°S, 134.48°E

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The named rock units Westonia nyapungensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Westonia nyapungensis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Westonia nyapungensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Westonia nyapungensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 20 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 Westonia nyapungensis 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 Westonia nyapungensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Westonia nyapungensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itWestonia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kruse 1990