Weltonia burnhamensis
No picture of Weltonia burnhamensis 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 Weltonia burnhamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WeltoniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Weltonia burnhamensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Weltonia burnhamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Weltonia burnhamensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Weltonia burnhamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Alopias crochardi2 sites
- Heptranchias howellii2 sites
- Hexanchus agassizi2 sites
- Notorynchus serratissimus2 sites
- Physogaleus secundus2 sites
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Centrophorus granulosus1 site
- Chlamydoselachus fiedleri1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
- Coupatezia miretrainensis1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Echinorhinus priscus1 site
- Foumtizia1 site
- Hypotodus verticalis1 site
- Isistius trituratus1 site
- Isurolamna inflata1 site
- Jaekelotodus robustus1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Macrorhizodus nolfi1 site
- Megascyliorhinus cooperi1 site
- Odontaspididae1 site
- Odontaspis winkleri1 site
- Otodus auriculatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Weltonia burnhamensis, 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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Weltonia burnhamensis 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 Weltonia burnhamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Weltonia burnhamensis 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 itWeltonia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward 1979