Maurotarion thomasi
Searched as Harpidella (Harpidella) thomasi. The Paleobiology Database treats Maurotarion thomasi as the accepted name.
No picture of Maurotarion thomasi 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 Maurotarion thomasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaurotarionPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Aulacopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Maurotarion thomasi 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
1 occurrences- 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Maurotarion thomasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maurotarion thomasi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Maurotarion thomasi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Maurotarion thomasi, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Maurotarion thomasi 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 Maurotarion thomasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maurotarion thomasi 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 itMaurotarion through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarkson and Howells 1981)