Whitfieldella sulcatina
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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 least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
20 occurrences of Whitfieldella sulcatina 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
20 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Whitfieldella sulcatina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Whitfieldella sulcatina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Whitfieldella sulcatina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Leonaspis6 sites
- Ceratocephala5 sites
- Deiphon5 sites
- Sphaerexochus dimorphus5 sites
- Spirinella struszi5 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) variabilis4 sites
- Hedeina4 sites
- Jonesea grayi4 sites
- Pentlandina harperi4 sites
- Septatrypa zelia4 sites
- Skenidioides operosa4 sites
- Acidaspis3 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) blodgetti3 sites
- Atrypoidea latilingulata3 sites
- Borealarges renodis3 sites
- Borealarges variabilis3 sites
- Calymene polgari3 sites
- Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina)3 sites
- Clorinda parvolinguifera3 sites
- Contracheirurus3 sites
- Cymbidium kirki3 sites
- Cyrtia alatiformis3 sites
- Diacalymene gabrielsi3 sites
- Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis)3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Whitfieldella sulcatina, 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
3 references- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian8
- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada6
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec6
Each of the 20 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 Whitfieldella sulcatina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Whitfieldella sulcatina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Whitfieldella sulcatina 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 itWhitfieldella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jin et al. 1993