Weyla (Lywea)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WeylaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Neitheidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.
116 occurrences of Weyla (Lywea) on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
116 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
11 formations
- Puchenque Formation21
- Piedra Pintada Formation12
- Cold Fish Volcanics Formation · Hazelton Group5
- Sierra de Santa Rosa Formation3
- Aberhan Pliensbach Formation2
- Spatsizi Formation · Hazelton Group2
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The named rock units Weyla (Lywea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Weyla (Lywea) and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Weyla (Lywea) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Chlamys textoria35 sites
- Weyla (Weyla) alata31 sites
- Brachiopoda28 sites
- Bivalvia27 sites
- Plagiostoma25 sites
- Gastropoda23 sites
- Actinostreon21 sites
- Entolium (Entolium) corneolum20 sites
- Weyla titan18 sites
- Ctenostreon rugosum17 sites
- Nanogyra auricularis16 sites
- Pinna folium16 sites
- Anthozoa15 sites
- Modiolus15 sites
- Montlivaltia15 sites
- Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi15 sites
- Weyla alata15 sites
- Lobothyris punctata14 sites
- Quadratirhynchia14 sites
- Entolium lunare13 sites
- Myophorella13 sites
- Weyla bodenbenderi13 sites
- Pinna11 sites
- Gervillaria pallas10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Weyla (Lywea), 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
14 references- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of Argentina: Part 1, Stratigraphical introduction and superfamilies Nuculanacea, Arcacea, Mytilacea and Pinnacea38
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia35
- Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile24
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia5
- Early Jurassic bivalves of the Antimonio terrane (Sonora, NW Mexico): Taxonomy, biogeography, and paleogeographic implications4
- Scleractinian corals of the Neuquen Basin (Lower Jurassic), Argentina2
- Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina1
- Geología del área Cerros de Cantaritos-Laguna Chica, Región de Atacama. Servicio Na- cional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 181: 171 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
- Geología de las áreas Río Chollay-Matancilla y Cajón del Encierro1
- Geología del Área Carrizal Bajo - Chacritas, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 111: 67 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000. Santiago1
- Early Jurassic shell beds from marginal marine environments in southern Mendoza, Argentina1
- Early Jurassic spiriferid brachiopods from Alaska and their paleogeographic significance1
Each of the 116 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Weyla (Lywea) 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 Weyla (Lywea), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Weyla (Lywea) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Damborenea 1987