Wellerella bidentata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WellerellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
20 occurrences of Wellerella bidentata 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
20 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Skinner Ranch Formation3
- Cathedral Mountain Formation3
- Copacabana Formation1
- Briggs Formation1
- Cutoff Formation1
- Bell Canyon Formation1
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The named rock units Wellerella bidentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wellerella bidentata and its relatives
PermianWhere Wellerella bidentata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Composita subtilita7 sites
- Hercosia uddeni7 sites
- Marginifera7 sites
- Phricodothyris guadalupensis7 sites
- Cartorhium latum6 sites
- Stenoscisma venustum6 sites
- Compressoproductus pinniformis5 sites
- Enteletes leonardensis5 sites
- Hustedia5 sites
- Leptodus5 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis5 sites
- Meekella skenoides5 sites
- Xestosia schucherti5 sites
- Chonosteges magnicostatus4 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus4 sites
- Institella leonardensis4 sites
- Meekella attenuata4 sites
- Megousia waageniana4 sites
- Orbicoelia guadalupensis4 sites
- Peniculauris ivesi4 sites
- Rhynchonellida4 sites
- Spyridiophora reticulata4 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys3 sites
- Anemonaria sublaevis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Wellerella bidentata, 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
5 references- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda10
- Upper Paleozoic of Peru6
- The Guadalupian fauna2
- Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV1
- Permian SEction at Apillapampa, Bolivia and its Fossil Content1
Each of the 20 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 Wellerella bidentata 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 Wellerella bidentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wellerella bidentata 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 itWellerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)