Wilsonites delicatus
No picture of Wilsonites delicatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wilsonites delicatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
43 occurrences of Wilsonites delicatus 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
43 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
13 formations
- Lost Branch Formation15
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group6
- Hepler Unit Formation3
- Seminole Formation · Pleasanton Group3
- Unnamed Formation2
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group1
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The named rock units Wilsonites delicatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wilsonites delicatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Wilsonites delicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Florinites42 sites
- Cyclogranisporites40 sites
- Calamospora39 sites
- Punctatisporites38 sites
- Laevigatosporites37 sites
- Granulatisporites33 sites
- Triquitrites33 sites
- Lycospora32 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus32 sites
- Deltoidospora28 sites
- Endosporites28 sites
- Microreticulatisporites23 sites
- Punctatosporites22 sites
- Raistrickia22 sites
- Apiculatasporites20 sites
- Lophotriletes20 sites
- Thymospora20 sites
- Verrucosisporites20 sites
- Potonieisporites19 sites
- Spermatophyta18 sites
- Cirratriradites17 sites
- Vesicaspora17 sites
- Vestispora fenestrata17 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Wilsonites delicatus, 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
3 references- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary20
- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins16
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin7
Each of the 43 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 Wilsonites delicatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wilsonites delicatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
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 itFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.