Whiteia

Whiteia

PierreSelim · 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
WhiteiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 16 of 18 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 14 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250.8 Mya227.3 Mya253 Mya200 Mya

18 occurrences of Whiteia on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

18 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

5 formations

Sulphur Mountain — 54.53°N, 120.74°WSulphur Mountain — 54.53°N, 120.76°WMiddle Sakamena — 13.05°S, 48.87°ESpray River — 54.54°N, 120.79°WHelongshan — 31.79°N, 118.19°ESulphur Mountain Formation — 54.57°N, 120.78°W

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The named rock units Whiteia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Whiteia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Whiteia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Whiteia, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Whiteia

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

No 3D scan of Whiteia 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 itWhiteiidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moy-Thomas 1935