Tahua taiaroa
No picture of Tahua taiaroa 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 Tahua taiaroa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TahuaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tahua taiaroa 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
5 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Tahua taiaroa and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Tahua taiaroa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Etalia johnstoni2 sites
- Daonella1 site
- Wairakirhynchia etaliana1 site
- Wairakirhynchia susvallensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tahua taiaroa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tahua taiaroa 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 Tahua taiaroa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tahua taiaroa 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 itTahua through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Begg and Grant-Mackie 2003