Wegelinia wegelini

Wegelinia wegelini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HibbertiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451 Mya444.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Wegelinia wegelini on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

4 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

2 formations

Lyckholm — 59.03°N, 24.05°ELyckholm — 58.67°N, 23.18°EBoda Limestone — 61.12°N, 16.62°E

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The named rock units Wegelinia wegelini 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.

Wegelinia wegelini and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Wegelinia wegelini and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Wegelinia wegelini, 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 reference

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Wegelinia wegelini

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Wegelinia wegelini 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 itHibbertia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)