Griffithidella welleri
No picture of Griffithidella welleri 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 Griffithidella welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GriffithidellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Griffithidella welleri 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Griffithidella welleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Griffithidella welleri and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Griffithidella welleri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Achistrum1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Amphipsalidocrinus inconsuetus1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Angyomphalus northviewensis1 site
- Anopliopsis subcarinata1 site
- Asterozoa1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Barycrinus1 site
- Bellerophontida1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Bythocyproidea1 site
- Cheilotrypa1 site
- Cladochonus crassus1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Cornuspira semiconstrictus1 site
- Cranaena1 site
- Crurithyris parva1 site
- Cryptobairdia compacta1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Cyathaxonia1 site
- Cyathocrinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Griffithidella welleri, 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
2 references- Lower Mississippian trilobites of the family Proetidae in the United States. Part II2
- Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Griffithidella welleri 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 Griffithidella welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Griffithidella welleri 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 itGriffithidella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson 1938)