Whitfieldella pygmaea

No picture of Whitfieldella pygmaea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Whitfieldella pygmaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439.1 Mya432.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Whitfieldella pygmaea 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

7 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

Attawapiskat — 52.96°N, 83.16°WAttawapiskat — 52.94°N, 83.07°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.85°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.88°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WEkwan River — 53.04°N, 84.53°W

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

Whitfieldella pygmaea and its relatives

Silurian

Where Whitfieldella pygmaea and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Whitfieldella pygmaea, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Whitfieldella pygmaea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Whitfieldella pygmaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itWhitfieldella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jin et al. 1993