Wapitiphyllum exiguum
No picture of Wapitiphyllum exiguum 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 Wapitiphyllum exiguum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WapitiphyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Wapitiphyllum exiguum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Wapitiphyllum exiguum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wapitiphyllum exiguum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Wapitiphyllum exiguum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Bouvierphyllum altum1 site
- Bouvierphyllum cardinalense1 site
- Bouvierphyllum maclareni1 site
- Ceciliaphyllum1 site
- Chuanbeiphyllum1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Frechastraea1 site
- Hankaxis ostentus1 site
- Hexagonaria1 site
- Hunanophrentis1 site
- Macgeea1 site
- Mictophyllum1 site
- Pachyphyllum1 site
- Pantophyllum1 site
- Peneckiella1 site
- Phillipsastrea1 site
- Piceaphyllum1 site
- Plectophyllum kindlei1 site
- Smithicyathus1 site
- Smithiphyllum frondosum1 site
- Smithiphyllum imperfectum1 site
- Smithiphyllum ventosum1 site
- Tarphyphyllum1 site
- Tarphyphyllum monkmanense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Wapitiphyllum exiguum, 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- Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada, part 1: Chonophyllidae and Kyphophyllidae2
- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America1
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 Wapitiphyllum exiguum 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 Wapitiphyllum exiguum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wapitiphyllum exiguum 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 itWapitiphyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLean and Pedder 1984