Taonurus
No picture of Taonurus 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 Taonurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblematicaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 379 Mya.
3 occurrences of Taonurus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group1
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The named rock units Taonurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Taonurus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Taonurus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Actinopteria2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Spinocyrtia2 sites
- Actinopteria boydi1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Ambocoelia umbonata1 site
- Athyris spiriferoides1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Auloporoidea1 site
- Barroisella1 site
- Bellerophontidae1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Centronella1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cimitaria1 site
- Cladochonus1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cornellites1 site
- Cupularostrum congregata1 site
- Cypricardella1 site
- Cypricardinia indenta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Taonurus, 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- Marine paleoecology in the Upper Devonian of New York1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania1
- Fauna of the Kanouse Sandstone at Highland Mills, New York1
Each of the 3 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 Taonurus 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 Taonurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taonurus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProblematica through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer-Ooster 1858