Williamsonia indica
No picture of Williamsonia indica 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 Williamsonia indica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WilliamsoniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Williamsonia indica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Williamsonia indica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Williamsonia indica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Williamsonia indica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Gleichenia gleichenoides3 sites
- Marattiopsis macrocarpa3 sites
- Morrisia rajmahalensis3 sites
- Ptilophyllum acutifolium3 sites
- Todites indicus3 sites
- Cycadolepis indica2 sites
- Elatocladus conferta2 sites
- Hirmeriella muensteri2 sites
- Pachypteris indica2 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense2 sites
- Rajmahalia paradoxa2 sites
- Sphenopteris hislopii2 sites
- Taeniopteris ensis2 sites
- Alethopteris whitbyensis1 site
- Allocladus bansaensis1 site
- Anomozamites amarjolense1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Araucarites bindrabunensis1 site
- Araucarites fibrosa1 site
- Bennetticarpus1 site
- Brachyphyllum expansum1 site
- Carnoconites rajmahalensis1 site
- Cladophlebis srivastavae1 site
- Coniferocaulon rajmahalense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Williamsonia indica, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Williamsonia indica 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 Williamsonia indica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Williamsonia indica 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 itWilliamsonia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1917