Valenia wilsoni
No picture of Valenia wilsoni 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 Valenia wilsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ValeniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Valenia wilsoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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 Valenia wilsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Valenia wilsoni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Valenia wilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Periptychus coarctatus4 sites
- Ectoconus ditrigonus3 sites
- Mithrandir gillianus3 sites
- Onychodectes tisonensis3 sites
- Oxyclaenus cuspidatus3 sites
- Taeniolabis taoensis3 sites
- Thylacodon pusillus3 sites
- Wortmania otariidens3 sites
- Allognathosuchus2 sites
- Bomburodon priscus2 sites
- Bubogonia bombadili2 sites
- Choeroclaenus turgidunculus2 sites
- Conacodon cophater2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Eoconodon coryphaeus2 sites
- Eucosmodon americanus2 sites
- Loxolophus hyattianus2 sites
- Loxolophus pentacus2 sites
- Oxyacodon apiculatus2 sites
- Oxyacodon priscilla2 sites
- Oxyclaenus simplex2 sites
- Peradectes2 sites
- Ptilodus tsosiensis2 sites
- Puercolestes simpsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Valenia wilsoni, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Valenia wilsoni 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 Valenia wilsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Valenia wilsoni 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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What may have been alongside itValenia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Van Valen 1978)