Whatcheeria deltae

Whatcheeria deltae

Nobu Tamura · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
WhatcheeriaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 339.9 Mya and 335.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Whatcheeria deltae 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

1 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

1 formation

St. Louis — 41.32°N, 92.33°W

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

Whatcheeria deltae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Whatcheeria deltae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Whatcheeria deltae, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content2

Picture of Whatcheeria deltae

Credit
Nobu Tamura
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Whatcheeria deltae · FMNH:PR:1634

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

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What may have been alongside itWhatcheeria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lombard and Bolt 1995