Wodnika

Wodnika is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish which lived in the Late Permian period in the present area of Germany and Russia. It measured about 1 m (3.2 ft) in length and its tail shape indicates it was probably a good swimmer. Internally, the cartilage skeleton is preserved on the fossil, which is fairly rare for fossilized shark-like chondrichthyans.

Wodnika

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenacanthoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 10 occurrences256–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences259.857 Mya23.04 Mya305 Mya10 Mya

14 occurrences of Wodnika on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

14 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

4 formations

Kupferschiefer — 52.23°N, 7.96°EKupferschiefer — 50.97°N, 10.01°EZechstein — 51.23°N, 8.89°EZechstein — 51.49°N, 6.55°EZechstein — 49.89°N, 9.35°ESiksikpuk — 68.71°N, 165.79°WAmanakskaya — 51.82°N, 54.99°E

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The named rock units Wodnika 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.

Wodnika and its relatives

Permian

Where Wodnika and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Wodnika, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Wodnika

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Stolmark
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCtenacanthoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Münster 1843