Ferrissia wittmanni

No picture of Ferrissia wittmanni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ferrissia wittmanni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FerrissiaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae

Time the record covers

At least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesMiocene21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya12.8 Mya20.9 Mya11.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Ferrissia wittmanni on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

6 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

2 formations

Kirchberg — 48.60°N, 10.72°EKirchberg — 48.47°N, 10.35°EKirchberg — 48.57°N, 10.42°EGrimmelfingen — 48.60°N, 10.72°E

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The named rock units Ferrissia wittmanni 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.

Ferrissia wittmanni and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ferrissia wittmanni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Ferrissia wittmanni, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 6 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 Ferrissia wittmanni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ferrissia wittmanni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ferrissia wittmanni 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 itFerrissia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlickum 1964)