Wilsonites vesicatus

No picture of Wilsonites vesicatus 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 vesicatus 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 8.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 64 of 65 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 65 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 5 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 5 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 5 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 5 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 5 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 4 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 4 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 4 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 3 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya298.9 Mya324 Mya292.9 Mya

65 occurrences of Wilsonites vesicatus 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

65 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

17 formations

Lost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WHepler Unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°WMemorial — 37.16°N, 95.47°WHoldenville — 36.59°N, 95.71°WLake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Wilsonites vesicatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wilsonites vesicatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Wilsonites vesicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Wilsonites vesicatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 65 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

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No picture of Wilsonites vesicatus 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 vesicatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.