Widdringtonites

Widdringtonites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 38 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences245–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–233 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237 Mya83.6 Mya245 Mya62 Mya

38 occurrences of Widdringtonites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

38 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

6 formations

Pautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 53.88°N, 119.13°WDunvegan — 55.57°N, 121.38°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WStuttgart — 49.20°N, 9.30°E

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The named rock units Widdringtonites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Widdringtonites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Widdringtonites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Widdringtonites, 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

11 references

Each of the 38 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 Widdringtonites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Widdringtonites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPinales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Endlicher 1847