Werriea australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WerrieaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
4 occurrences of Werriea australis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Werriea australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Werriea australis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Werriea australis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Brachythyris3 sites
- Camarotoechia3 sites
- Leptagonia analoga3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Unispirifer3 sites
- Waagenoconcha3 sites
- Asyrinxia2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Echinoconchus2 sites
- Eomarginifera2 sites
- Kitakamithyris2 sites
- Krotovia2 sites
- Marginatia2 sites
- Platyceras2 sites
- Rhipidomella2 sites
- Rugosochonetes2 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata2 sites
- Schizophoria verulamensis2 sites
- Streptorhynchus2 sites
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Balanoconcha1 site
- Caninophyllum1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Conularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Werriea australis, 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
4 references- Silicified Carboniferous (Chesterian) Brachiopoda of the Arco Hills Formation, Idaho1
- A Lower Carboniferous fauna from Trevallyn, New South Wales1
- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from Greenhills, New South Wales1
- A lower Carboniferous brachiopod-coral fauna from New South Wales1
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. 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
Media content0
No picture of Werriea australis 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 Werriea australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Werriea australis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itWerriea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell 1957