Taosia

No picture of Taosia 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 Taosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonematidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 123 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 20 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 16 of 37 occurrencesPermian396–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–322 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–308 Mya — about 6 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–299 Mya — about 6 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 4 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences387.95 Mya264.28 Mya396 Mya257 Mya

37 occurrences of Taosia 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

37 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

17 formations

Palmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.35°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WCascaden — 65.49°N, 148.47°WWatahomigi — 36.14°N, 112.89°WPhosphoria — 42.57°N, 108.41°WH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°EPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WZhesi — 42.65°N, 110.47°ESurmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°EHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WLane Shale — 39.31°N, 94.92°W

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The named rock units Taosia 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.

Taosia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Taosia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

705 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Taosia, 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

21 references

Each of the 37 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Taosia 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 Taosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Taosia 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 itOrthonematidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1939)