Whiteia tuberculata
No picture of Whiteia tuberculata 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 Whiteia tuberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WhiteiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 300 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.1 Mya and 250.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Whiteia tuberculata on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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.
Whiteia tuberculata and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Whiteia tuberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Australosomus merlei2 sites
- Boreosomus gillioti2 sites
- Jacobulus novus2 sites
- Parasemionotus labordei2 sites
- Pteronisculus cicatrosus2 sites
- Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) madagascariensis2 sites
- Teffichthys madagascariensis2 sites
- Watsonulus eugnathoides2 sites
- Whiteia woodwardi2 sites
- Errolichthys mirabilis1 site
- Perleidus1 site
- Pteronisculus1 site
- Pteronisculus arambourgi1 site
- Saurichthys1 site
- Saurichthys stensioi1 site
- Stensionotus intercessus1 site
- Thomasinotus divisus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Whiteia tuberculata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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 Whiteia tuberculata 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 Whiteia tuberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Whiteia tuberculata 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 itWhiteia through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moy-Thomas 1935