Valdesia

No picture of Valdesia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Valdesia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 33 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

33 occurrences of Valdesia 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

33 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

7 formations

San Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.73°S, 67.50°WChenque — 45.42°S, 67.42°WChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.50°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.67°WEl Chacay — 48.83°S, 70.83°WGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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

Valdesia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Valdesia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Valdesia, 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

4 references

Each of the 33 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. 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

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No picture of Valdesia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Valdesia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Valdesia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Morra and del Río 1985