Waimatea

No picture of Waimatea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Waimatea itself, so it was not used. 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 Waimatea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolutomitridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutomitridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutomitridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutomitridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 36.7 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.1 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36.7 Mya18.7 Mya39.6 Mya15.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Waimatea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

4 formations

Waikareka Volcanic — 44.64°S, 171.01°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EDeborah Volcanic — 45.18°S, 170.91°E

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

Waimatea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Waimatea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

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

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content0

No picture of Waimatea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Waimatea itself, so it was not used.

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 Waimatea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Waimatea 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itVolutomitridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1927