Weixiserpula
No picture of Weixiserpula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Weixiserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerpulidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Weixiserpula 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
22 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Weixiserpula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Weixiserpula and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Weixiserpula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Diholkorhynchia sinensis22 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis22 sites
- Mentzelia subspherica22 sites
- Cassianella simplex21 sites
- Lepismatina hsui21 sites
- Newaagia21 sites
- Cassianella20 sites
- Praechlamys20 sites
- Qingyanocrinus kueichounensis20 sites
- Elegantinia19 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli19 sites
- Ostreoidea19 sites
- Protostrea sinensis19 sites
- Pseudoplacunopsis19 sites
- Septaliphorioidea paucicostata19 sites
- Solenopora19 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis18 sites
- Balanocrinus18 sites
- Bivalvia18 sites
- Elegantarca subareata18 sites
- Elegantinia elegans18 sites
- Ruxingella18 sites
- Terquemiidae18 sites
- Wortheniella18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Weixiserpula, 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
1 referenceEach of the 22 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 content0
No picture of Weixiserpula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Weixiserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSerpulidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stiller 2000