Wimanella

Wimanella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BohemiellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 30 of 30 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 30 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence512–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–510 Mya — about 1 occurrence510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya497 Mya515.9 Mya486.3 Mya

30 occurrences of Wimanella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

30 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

16 formations

Tindall Limestone — 13.82°S, 131.35°ELead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WGordon Shale — 47.55°N, 113.07°WGordon Shale — 47.43°N, 113.07°WGordon Shale — 47.45°N, 113.37°WCadiz — 34.54°N, 115.47°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WParker Slate — 44.74°N, 73.16°WPoleta — 37.26°N, 118.15°WPoleta — 37.27°N, 118.09°WCathedral Dolomite — 52.83°N, 119.25°WPioche — 36.19°N, 115.01°WArrojos — 30.42°N, 111.93°WCoonigan — 31.17°S, 141.32°EWolsey — 48.44°N, 115.98°WCathedral — 51.43°N, 116.33°WLaoyingshan — 32.58°N, 116.85°ELatham — 34.54°N, 115.48°WMt. Whyte — 51.49°N, 116.08°W

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

Wimanella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Wimanella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Wimanella, 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

19 references

Each of the 30 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Wimanella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBohemiellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908