Worthenia speciosa

Worthenia speciosa

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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 least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 13 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 18 of 31 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 2 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–273 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318.6 Mya266.9 Mya325 Mya263 Mya

31 occurrences of Worthenia speciosa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

31 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

20 formations

Hueco — 32.37°N, 106.87°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WHueco — 31.84°N, 105.99°WAdmiral — 31.76°N, 99.47°WAdmiral — 31.77°N, 99.42°WAdmiral — 31.57°N, 99.60°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WCutoff — 31.99°N, 104.92°WNeal Ranch — 30.42°N, 102.97°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WLueders — 31.78°N, 99.95°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.17°WTalpa — 31.60°N, 99.83°WClyde — 31.67°N, 99.83°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WPueblo — 31.40°N, 99.49°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WMineral Wells — 32.89°N, 98.14°WLazy Bend — 32.52°N, 98.05°WCaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.03°W

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The named rock units Worthenia speciosa 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 speciosa and its relatives

Permian

Where Worthenia speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Worthenia speciosa, 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

9 references

Each of the 31 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

Media content1

Picture of Worthenia speciosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Worthenia speciosa 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 itWorthenia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1860)