Whitspakia

Whitspakia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
DielasmatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 91 of 91 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–259 Mya — about 12 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 13 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 13 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 13 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 13 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 9 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya283.9 Mya251.3 Mya

91 occurrences of Whitspakia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

91 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

11 formations

Wargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.58°N, 72.37°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.47°N, 72.12°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.26°N, 71.10°EWargal — 32.23°N, 71.05°EChhidru — 32.20°N, 70.91°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.05°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 71.80°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 72.07°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.88°N, 71.57°EChangxing — 25.72°N, 112.82°EChangxing — 25.70°N, 117.70°EMianwali — 32.97°N, 71.22°ERuteh — 36.05°N, 51.35°EQixia — 29.55°N, 114.18°EShaksgam — 35.78°N, 76.82°ENesen — 36.25°N, 52.37°EAmb — 32.72°N, 71.75°EThitsipin Limestone — 21.94°N, 97.82°EZewan — 33.99°N, 75.03°E

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The named rock units Whitspakia 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.

Whitspakia and its relatives

Permian

Where Whitspakia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

663 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Whitspakia, 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

15 references

Each of the 91 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. 3 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 Whitspakia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Whitspakia 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 itDielasmatinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehli 1964