Wurmiella polinclinata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WurmiellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
62 occurrences of Wurmiella polinclinata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
62 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian100%
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
- Esill Shale Formation35
- LaPorte City Formation11
- Irondequoit Limestone Formation6
- Irondequoit Limestone Formation3
- Williamson Shale Formation2
- Byron Formation1
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The named rock units Wurmiella polinclinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wurmiella polinclinata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Wurmiella polinclinata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Distomodus staurognathoides13 sites
- Panderodus12 sites
- Pterospathodus amorphognathoides12 sites
- Carniodus carnulus10 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus9 sites
- Oulodus7 sites
- Ozarkodina hadra6 sites
- Pterospathodus eopennatus6 sites
- Walliserodus sancticlairi6 sites
- Wurmiella excavata6 sites
- Pseudooneotodus bicornis5 sites
- Apsidognathus tuberculatus4 sites
- Kockelella2 sites
- Pseudolonchodina2 sites
- Aspelundia fluegeli1 site
- Aulacognathus1 site
- Aulacognathus latus1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Decoriconus fragilis1 site
- Distomodus1 site
- Jinonicella kolebabai1 site
- Kockelella ranuliformis1 site
- Nudibelodina sensitiva1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Wurmiella polinclinata, 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
7 references- Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy35
- Conodont biostratigraphy of the Scotch Grove and Laporte City Formations (Late Llandovery- early Wenlock; Silurian) in eastern Iowa11
- Conodont biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Clinton Group and the Lockport Group (Silurian) in the Niagara Gorge region, New York and Ontario11
- Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin2
- The problematic mollusc Jinonicella from the Silurian of North America1
- Upper Ordovician – Upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy, Devon Island and southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, with implications for regional stratigraphy, eustasy, and thermal maturation1
- A silicified deep-water Silurian fauna from SE Wisconsin1
Each of the 62 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.
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No picture of Wurmiella polinclinata 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 Wurmiella polinclinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wurmiella polinclinata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nicoll and Rexroad 1968)