Wormaldia

Wormaldia is a genus of fingernet caddisflies in the family Philopotamidae. There are more than 140 described species in Wormaldia. Fossil species have been described from the Late Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.

Wormaldia

Erin Hayes-Pontius · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PhilopotaminaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 37 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 22 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Wormaldia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

37 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

Raritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WCoffee Sand — 35.28°N, 88.29°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WDon — 43.69°N, 79.36°W

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The named rock units Wormaldia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wormaldia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Wormaldia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,806 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Wormaldia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

16 references

Each of the 37 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Wormaldia

Credit
Erin Hayes-Pontius
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Wormaldia 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.

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 itPhilopotaminae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacLachlan 1865