Wurmiella

Searched as Wurmiella excavata excavata. The Paleobiology Database treats Wurmiella as the accepted name.

Wurmiella is an extinct conodont genus.

No picture of Wurmiella 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 Wurmiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpathognathodontodaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 52 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 45 of 52 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 52 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 6 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 12 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 12 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 8 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432.9 Mya419.62 Mya450.2 Mya412.3 Mya

52 occurrences of Wurmiella 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

52 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

6 formations

Birstonas — 55.48°N, 24.49°ECape Phillips — 77.52°N, 83.97°WCape Phillips — 76.27°N, 95.30°WNevėzis — 55.48°N, 24.49°EAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WLochkov — 50.02°N, 14.32°ELaPorte City — 42.00°N, 92.03°W

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The named rock units Wurmiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Wurmiella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Wurmiella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

740 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 503 sites for Wurmiella, 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

4 references

Each of the 52 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

Media content0

No picture of Wurmiella 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 Wurmiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Wurmiella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpathognathodontodae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Murphy et al. 2004