Wetherellia variabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WetherelliaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Wetherellia variabilis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Wetherellia variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wetherellia variabilis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Wetherellia variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Scirpus lakensis2 sites
- Acrostichum lanzaeanum1 site
- Anemia poolensis1 site
- Anemia subcretacea1 site
- Aracispermum arnense1 site
- Araucarites selseyensis1 site
- Burtonella emarginata1 site
- Caricoidea1 site
- Caricoidea arnei1 site
- Caricoidea obscura1 site
- Carpolithus1 site
- Carpolithus arnensis1 site
- Carpolithus curryi1 site
- Eomastixia rugosa1 site
- Euphorbiotheca1 site
- Hamamelidaceae1 site
- Icacinicarya inornata1 site
- Iodes acutiformis1 site
- Laurocalyx1 site
- Limnocarpus enormis1 site
- Limnocarpus forbesi1 site
- Mastixia cantiensis1 site
- Nypa burtini1 site
- Nyssoidea eocenica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Wetherellia variabilis, 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
5 references- Chandler, 19613
- The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. II. Flora of the Pipe-Clay Series of Dorset (Lower Bagshot)1
- Post-Ypresian plant remains from the Isle of Wight and the Selsey Peninsula, Sussex1
- Report on Phyto-Palaeontological Investigations of the Fossil Flora of Sheppey1
- A History of the Fossil Fruits & Seeds of the London Clay1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Wetherellia variabilis 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 Wetherellia variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wetherellia variabilis 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 itWetherellia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bowerbank 1840