Worthenia contabulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WortheniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Worthenia contabulata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
8 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- Fődolomit Formation2
- Mavri Formation · Talea Ori Group1
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The named rock units Worthenia contabulata 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.
Worthenia contabulata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Worthenia contabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Ampullospira2 sites
- Neomegalodon2 sites
- Zygopleura2 sites
- Costatoria inaequicostata1 site
- Dicerocardium1 site
- Gemmelarodus1 site
- Isognomon1 site
- Lima1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Modiolus gracilis1 site
- Neomegalodon boeckhi1 site
- Neomegalodon hoernesi1 site
- Neritopsis1 site
- Parallelodon rudis1 site
- Pleuromya loeschmanni1 site
- Purpuroidea1 site
- Schafhaeutlia mellingi1 site
- Stuorella1 site
- Trypanostylus obliquus1 site
- Worthenia gepidorum1 site
- Zygopleura hybrida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Worthenia contabulata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Fossilfunde aus dem Hauptdolomit (Nor, Trias) der östlichen Galitaler Alpen (Kärnten, Österreich)5
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie2
- Neue Daten zur Biostratigraphie des permotriadischen Autochthons der Insel Kreta (Griechenland)1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Worthenia contabulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Worthenia contabulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Worthenia contabulata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itWorthenia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Costa 1964)