Taosia missouriensis
No picture of Taosia missouriensis 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 Taosia missouriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaosiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Taosia missouriensis 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group1
- Wolf Mountain Formation · Canyon Group1
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The named rock units Taosia missouriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Taosia missouriensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Taosia missouriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Meekospira peracuta2 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis2 sites
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Callispira quinquecostata1 site
- Coelocladia spinosa1 site
- Colospongia benjamini1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Delocrinus1 site
- Ditomopyge scitula1 site
- Eoptychia intermittens1 site
- Eridmatus texanus1 site
- Euphemites carbonarius1 site
- Euphemites nodocarinatus1 site
- Euphemites vittatus1 site
- Girtycoelia typica1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) welleri1 site
- Gonioloboceras welleri1 site
- Gosseletina persimplex1 site
- Hemizyga (Plocezyga) convertacostata1 site
- Hemizyga elegans1 site
- Hemizyga inflata1 site
- Levizygopleura trochus1 site
- Lophophyllidium profundum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Taosia missouriensis, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphy of the Graford Formation, Missourian, Wise County, Texas1
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Taosia missouriensis 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 Taosia missouriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taosia missouriensis 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 itTaosia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1915)