Wurmiella excavata

Wurmiella excavata

Dr Vachik Hairapetian · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WurmiellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 237 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 1167 occurrencesSilurian — about 985 of 1167 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 172 of 1167 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 1167 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 1167 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1167 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1167 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1167 occurrences454–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–439 Mya — about 21 occurrences439–432 Mya — about 102 occurrences432–424 Mya — about 507 occurrences424–417 Mya — about 412 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 104 occurrences410–402 Mya — about 5 occurrences402–395 Mya — about 5 occurrences395–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–380 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences373–365 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya382.31 Mya454 Mya233 Mya

1,167 occurrences of Wurmiella excavata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1,167 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

124 formations

Much Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 55.13°N, 2.37°WSundre — 56.91°N, 18.19°ESundre — 57.00°N, 18.40°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.29°ESundre — 56.98°N, 18.35°ESundre — 56.91°N, 18.15°ERauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°EHamra — 56.95°N, 18.16°EHamra — 56.97°N, 18.22°EHamra — 57.13°N, 18.36°EHamra — 56.91°N, 18.14°EHamra — 57.00°N, 18.40°EKopanina — 50.04°N, 14.33°ECamelford — 32.95°S, 148.82°ECamelford — 33.95°S, 148.82°ECamelford — 32.95°S, 148.85°EEtelhem — 57.17°N, 18.28°EEtelhem — 57.28°N, 18.40°EEtelhem — 57.37°N, 18.81°EEtelhem — 57.28°N, 18.53°EAlticola — 46.62°N, 12.88°EJaagarahu — 58.35°N, 22.08°EWhitcliffe — 52.53°N, 2.63°WWhitcliffe — 52.45°N, 2.72°WWhitcliffe — 52.43°N, 2.75°WWhitcliffe — 52.07°N, 2.35°WWhitcliffe — 51.58°N, 1.87°WWhitcliffe — 52.45°N, 2.12°WWhitcliffe — 51.70°N, 2.45°WWhitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.57°WWhitcliffe — 52.93°N, 4.37°WWhitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WMegaerella — 46.44°N, 12.87°EGėluva — 54.65°N, 23.33°ERiga — 55.40°N, 22.88°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.33°EHenryhouse — 34.41°N, 97.08°WAlticola — 46.44°N, 12.87°EAlticola — 46.61°N, 12.87°EAlticola — 46.57°N, 12.12°EAlticola — 46.58°N, 13.13°ERabbit Hill Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.44°WJaani — 58.52°N, 24.68°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°EHalla — 57.38°N, 18.25°EHalla — 57.35°N, 18.20°EHalla — 57.30°N, 18.15°EHalla — 57.61°N, 18.80°ESorve — 57.81°N, 23.25°EWindmill Limestone — 40.04°N, 116.46°WWindmill Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.44°WNär — 57.31°N, 18.67°ENär — 57.11°N, 18.21°ENär — 57.40°N, 18.73°ENär — 57.42°N, 18.93°ENär — 57.32°N, 18.43°ENär — 57.44°N, 18.98°EPetes — 57.26°N, 18.36°EPetes — 57.20°N, 18.23°EPetes — 57.17°N, 18.27°ELilley — 38.94°N, 83.46°WLilley — 39.07°N, 83.39°WLilley — 39.19°N, 83.62°WLilley — 38.95°N, 83.42°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.37°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.47°N, 1.88°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.70°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.05°N, 2.57°W

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The named rock units Wurmiella excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 100 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 153 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wurmiella excavata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Wurmiella excavata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

741 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 483 sites for Wurmiella excavata, and this reads 240 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

82 references

Each of the 1,167 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. 70 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 content1

Picture of Wurmiella excavata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Vachik Hairapetian
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Wurmiella excavata 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 itWurmiella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson and Mehl 1933)