Westergaardodina bicuspidata

Westergaardodina bicuspidata

Heinsalu, Heljo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WestergaardodinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 499.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 16 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences494.2 Mya490.2 Mya500 Mya486.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Westergaardodina bicuspidata on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

16 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

12 formations

Alum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.41°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EFengshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EFengshan — 42.06°N, 126.71°EGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°WChangshan — 39.75°N, 118.32°ETsitre — 59.44°N, 27.21°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WLomashkin — 60.29°N, 29.48°ELadoga — 59.73°N, 30.45°ESnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°W

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The named rock units Westergaardodina bicuspidata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Westergaardodina bicuspidata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Westergaardodina bicuspidata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Westergaardodina bicuspidata, 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

11 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Westergaardodina bicuspidata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Heinsalu, Heljo
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Westergaardodina bicuspidata 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 itWestergaardodina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1959