Whidbornella

Whidbornella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
AraksalosiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 80 of 82 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 82 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 4 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 4 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 4 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 3 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 3 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 3 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 5 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 8 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 8 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 8 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 7 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya388.8 Mya345.9 Mya

82 occurrences of Whidbornella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

82 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

23 formations

Geneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.15°WGeneseo — 42.58°N, 75.11°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.25°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WBedford Shale — 41.59°N, 81.57°WBedford Shale — 41.38°N, 81.56°WBedford Shale — 41.50°N, 81.70°WPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WChemung — 42.90°N, 76.81°WChemung — 42.00°N, 76.00°WChemung — 42.27°N, 77.55°WChemung — 42.22°N, 76.37°WChemung — 42.67°N, 79.48°WChemung — 42.33°N, 77.67°WChemung — 42.17°N, 76.58°WChemung — 42.35°N, 76.36°WKoh-e Giru — 33.98°N, 68.05°EKoh-e Giru — 34.23°N, 68.00°EEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBeaulieu — 46.00°N, 2.00°EAlfred Shale — 42.25°N, 77.78°WAlfred Shale — 42.77°N, 77.27°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.43°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.55°WCawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°EEtroeungt — 50.45°N, 5.25°EEtroeungt — 50.50°N, 5.60°EGlen Park — 39.58°N, 91.07°WEnglish River — 41.00°N, 89.00°WVelbert — 51.33°N, 7.05°EFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EShetianqiao — 27.78°N, 111.50°EDunkirk — 42.25°N, 78.81°WSheffield — 42.73°N, 93.27°WBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.38°ETully — 42.53°N, 74.81°WLock Haven — 41.82°N, 77.06°WDouar Nahilat — 32.66°N, 7.78°WPilton — 51.08°N, 4.12°W

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The named rock units Whidbornella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Whidbornella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Whidbornella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Whidbornella, 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

18 references

Each of the 82 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Whidbornella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.