Worthenia tabulata

Worthenia tabulata

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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 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 77 of 87 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 87 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 8 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 14 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 20 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 20 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318.6 Mya274.4 Mya325 Mya266 Mya

87 occurrences of Worthenia tabulata 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

87 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

24 formations

Graham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WGraham — 31.53°N, 99.27°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WBone Spring — 31.78°N, 105.93°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.92°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WBar B — 32.87°N, 107.27°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WPueblo — 31.40°N, 99.49°WMineral Wells — 32.89°N, 98.14°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WBreathitt — 37.63°N, 82.65°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°WCaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.03°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WNellie Bly — 36.15°N, 96.25°WSaginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°W

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The named rock units Worthenia tabulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Worthenia tabulata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Worthenia tabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,018 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Worthenia tabulata, 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

21 references

Each of the 87 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. 9 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 Worthenia tabulata

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1835)