Withersella crepitans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WithersellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Withersella crepitans on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Withersella crepitans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Withersella crepitans and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Withersella crepitans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Conoteuthis dupinianus2 sites
- Glaessnerella balli2 sites
- Vectis wrighti2 sites
- Virgiscalpellum wrighti2 sites
- Aconeceras (Aconeceras) haugi1 site
- Aconeceras nisoides1 site
- Actaeopsis wiltshirei1 site
- Ancyloceras mantelli1 site
- Anisomyon vectis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anomia convexa1 site
- Anomia laevigata1 site
- Anthonya1 site
- Aptolinter1 site
- Arcoscalpellum1 site
- Atherfieldastacus magnus1 site
- Bathraspira neocomiensis1 site
- Bathrotomaria atherfieldensis1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Cassiope1 site
- Ceratostreon tuberculiferum1 site
- Cercomya1 site
- Cerithiella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Withersella crepitans, 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
2 references- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England1
- British Cretaceous Crabs1
Each of the 2 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 Withersella crepitans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Withersella crepitans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Withersella crepitans 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 itWithersella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright and Collins 1972