Worthenia parvula
No picture of Worthenia parvula 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 Worthenia parvula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Worthenia parvula 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Worthenia parvula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Worthenia parvula and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Worthenia parvula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Ditomopyge scitula1 site
- Euphemites multiliratus1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) welleri1 site
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense1 site
- Meekospira peracuta1 site
- Palaeostylus (Palaeostylus) marvinwelleri1 site
- Phymatopleura nodosa1 site
- Plocezyga subnodosa1 site
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense1 site
- Pseudozygopleura funis1 site
- Pseudozygopleura macra1 site
- Shansiella carbonaria1 site
- Strobeus paludinaeformis1 site
- Trepospira illinoisensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Worthenia parvula, 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
2 references- Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA2
- Pennsylvannian marine gastropods from the Appalachian basin1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Worthenia parvula 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 Worthenia parvula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Worthenia parvula 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itWorthenia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoare et al. 1997)