Whitfieldella nitida

Whitfieldella nitida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WhitfieldellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Whitfieldella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Whitfieldella
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Whitfieldella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 48 occurrencesSilurian — about 48 of 48 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 7 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 7 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

48 occurrences of Whitfieldella nitida on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

48 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

18 formations

Rochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WIrondequoit — 43.12°N, 79.07°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRockway — 43.15°N, 77.06°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WOsgood — 39.13°N, 85.30°WRochester Shale — 43.03°N, 79.28°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WHerkimer — 43.06°N, 75.40°WChicotte — 49.27°N, 63.07°WJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°E

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

Whitfieldella nitida and its relatives

Silurian

Where Whitfieldella nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

448 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Whitfieldella nitida, 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

10 references

Each of the 48 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 Whitfieldella nitida

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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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What may have been alongside itWhitfieldella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)