Wairakirhynchia
No picture of Wairakirhynchia 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 Wairakirhynchia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraemonticlarellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
68 occurrences of Wairakirhynchia on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
68 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Wairakirhynchia and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Wairakirhynchia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Etalia johnstoni7 sites
- Maorirhynchia nelsonensis7 sites
- Daonella3 sites
- Aparimarhynchia takitimuensis2 sites
- Maorirhynchia nuggetensis2 sites
- Mellarium2 sites
- Aorhynchia ohaiensis1 site
- Aparimarhynchia dunrobinensis1 site
- Beaumontites bartrumi1 site
- Beaumontites routi1 site
- Laevigatocrinus1 site
- Mamoeatomaria wairakiensis1 site
- Murihikua tuhawaiki1 site
- Parapopanoceras fraseri1 site
- Sakawairhynchia zealandica1 site
- Tahua taiaroa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Wairakirhynchia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 68 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 Wairakirhynchia 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 Wairakirhynchia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wairakirhynchia 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 itPraemonticlarellinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacFarlan 1992