Talpina

Searched as Talpina sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Talpina as the accepted name.

No picture of Talpina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Talpina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 315 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 66 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences400–389 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences389–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–196 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences196–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–150 Mya — about 5 occurrences150–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–59 Mya — about 11 occurrences387.95 Mya72.2 Mya400 Mya59 Mya

28 occurrences of Talpina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

28 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

8 formations

Jagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°WTrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WXintianmen — 25.68°N, 113.23°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.82°EPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°E

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The named rock units Talpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Talpina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Talpina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Talpina, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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 Talpina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Talpina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Talpina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Hagenow 1840