Taffertia taffertensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaffertiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Taffertia taffertensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
11 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Taffertia taffertensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Taffertia taffertensis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Taffertia taffertensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Hildaites exilis4 sites
- Nodicoeloceras4 sites
- Phylloceras4 sites
- Praepolyplectus4 sites
- Hildaites striatus3 sites
- Hildaites subserpentinus3 sites
- Hildaites bisulcatus2 sites
- Lytoceras francisci2 sites
- Alocolytoceras coarctatum1 site
- Alocolytoceras dorcadis1 site
- Calliphylloceras1 site
- Calliphylloceras capitanii1 site
- Calliphylloceras nilssoni1 site
- Collina gemma1 site
- Crassiceras gradatum1 site
- Crassiceras latum1 site
- Crestaites meneghinii1 site
- Crestaites victorii1 site
- Dactylioceras1 site
- Dactylioceras (Dactylioceras) attenuatus1 site
- Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites)1 site
- Dactylioceras kanense1 site
- Furloceras chelussii1 site
- Furloceras iserensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Taffertia taffertensis, 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
5 references- The Toarcian in the Subbetic basin (southern Spain): Bio-events (ammonite and calcareous nannofossils) and carbon-isotope stratigraphy4
- Early Toarcian (post-OAE) Hildoceratinae (Ammonitina) fauna from the Marchean Apennines (Italy)4
- Ammonites and stratigraphic succession of the middle Toarcian – lowermost Aalenian from the Jebel Amergou (Moulay Bouchta area, Internal Prerif Zone, External Rif belt, northern Morocco)1
- The Jurassic succession at Lisadele Lake (Tulsequah map area, British Columbia, Canada) and its bearing on the tectonic evolution of the Stikine terrane1
- Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from western North America1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Taffertia taffertensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Taffertia taffertensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taffertia taffertensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTaffertia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geux 1973