Wortheniella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WortheniellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 151 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 97 of 151 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 52 of 151 occurrencesLate Triassic252–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–244 Mya — about 17 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 50 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 28 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 13 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 22 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 13 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248.6 Mya211.18 Mya251.7 Mya204.8 Mya

151 occurrences of Wortheniella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

151 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

10 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.23°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.62°N, 11.83°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ESan Cassiano — 46.52°N, 12.12°ESciliar — 46.44°N, 11.86°ESciliar — 46.34°N, 11.67°ENayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°EMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WMuschelkalk — 50.92°N, 9.47°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EWeiyuanjiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°ERaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°E

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The named rock units Wortheniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wortheniella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Wortheniella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,351 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Wortheniella, 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

19 references

Each of the 151 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. 7 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

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No picture of Wortheniella 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 Wortheniella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Wortheniella 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 itWortheniellidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwardt 1992