Wimanella simplex
No picture of Wimanella simplex 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 Wimanella simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WimanellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bohemiellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Wimanella simplex on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Wimanella simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wimanella simplex and its relatives
CambrianWhere Wimanella simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Acrothele3 sites
- Albertella2 sites
- Bathyuriscus2 sites
- Ptychoparia2 sites
- Bathyuriscus belesis1 site
- Dictyonina pannula1 site
- Kochina americana1 site
- Micromitra (Iphidella) nyssa1 site
- Micromitra (Paterina) wapta1 site
- Obolus (Westonia) ella1 site
- Obolus parvus1 site
- Olenopsis sp.1 site
- Paralbertella bosworthi1 site
- Vanuxemella contracta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Wimanella simplex, 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
3 references- Cambrian Brachiopoda from Montana2
- Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 2. Cambrian Trilobites2
- Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 5. Cambrian trilobites1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Wimanella simplex 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 Wimanella simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itWimanella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908