Tainoceras monilifer

Tainoceras monilifer

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TainocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 26 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 26 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304.2 Mya298.4 Mya

26 occurrences of Tainoceras monilifer on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

26 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

2 formations

Graham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°W

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The named rock units Tainoceras monilifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tainoceras monilifer and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tainoceras monilifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Tainoceras monilifer, 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

3 references

Each of the 26 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tainoceras monilifer

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tainoceras monilifer 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 itTainoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller et al. 1933