Wattia

Wattia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Three species have been described, W. ferruginea, W. petiolata and W. sessilis. The species, now extinct was discovered by John Russell Malloch in 1938. It is classified in the subfamily Tachininae and in the family Tachinidae. The genus was originally found in New Zealand.

No picture of Wattia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wattia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPermian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

7 occurrences of Wattia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

Khuff — 20.00°N, 45.00°EKhuff — 26.50°N, 44.00°EPospelovka — 43.05°N, 131.85°EArroyo — 33.73°N, 99.16°WVeslyanskaya Suite — 63.80°N, 51.10°E

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The named rock units Wattia 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.

Wattia and its relatives

Permian

Where Wattia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Wattia, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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. 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

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No picture of Wattia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Wattia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mamay 1967