Watsonella

No picture of Watsonella 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 Watsonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StenothecidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 512.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 83 of 83 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 2 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 4 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 4 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 4 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 4 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 11 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 11 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 11 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 11 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 9 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525.5 Mya516 Mya539.3 Mya511.6 Mya

83 occurrences of Watsonella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

83 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

20 formations

Zhujiaqing — 27.93°N, 103.56°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EZhujiaqing — 25.52°N, 103.07°EZhujiaqing — 26.38°N, 103.21°EChapel Island — 46.92°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.07°N, 55.87°WPestrotsvet — 57.35°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°ESellick Hill — 35.37°S, 138.38°EMarcou — 43.70°N, 3.01°EWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°EFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WCampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WDengying — 26.42°N, 103.50°EKrasnoporog — 67.14°N, 86.75°EShiyantou — 27.93°N, 103.56°EYu'anshan — 27.93°N, 103.56°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EHuangshandong — 30.78°N, 111.15°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EChapel Island — 46.87°N, 56.24°WMedvezhya — 70.14°N, 114.00°EKugda-Yuryakh — 70.14°N, 114.00°EMedvezhyn — 70.63°N, 103.43°E

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

Watsonella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Watsonella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Watsonella, 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

22 references

Each of the 83 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Watsonella 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 Watsonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Watsonella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itStenothecidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1900