Whitfieldella

Whitfieldella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WhitfieldellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 240 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 236 of 240 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 240 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 10 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 10 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 10 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 10 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 16 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 40 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 37 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 21 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 18 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 16 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 8 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 5 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 6 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 5 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence445.2 Mya422.7 Mya453.5 Mya419 Mya

240 occurrences of Whitfieldella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

240 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

72 formations

Irondequoit — 43.12°N, 79.07°WIrondequoit — 43.16°N, 79.05°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WAttawapiskat — 52.85°N, 83.90°WAttawapiskat — 52.90°N, 83.95°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.64°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.52°WAttawapiskat — 52.96°N, 83.16°WAttawapiskat — 52.94°N, 83.07°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.88°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMcKenzie — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMcKenzie — 39.57°N, 78.84°WMcKenzie — 39.44°N, 78.97°WMcKenzie — 39.12°N, 79.17°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EJaani — 58.57°N, 22.29°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WRockway — 43.15°N, 77.06°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WDamery Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSyracuse — 43.07°N, 76.33°WGuelph — 43.55°N, 80.25°WGuelph — 43.68°N, 80.43°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°W

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The named rock units Whitfieldella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Whitfieldella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Whitfieldella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Whitfieldella, 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

50 references

Each of the 240 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. 38 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 Whitfieldella

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1893