Tapinotomaria

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymatopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 64 of 68 occurrencesPermian338–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–318 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence295–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 9 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 11 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 11 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 8 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 8 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 7 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences330.3 Mya259.857 Mya338 Mya253 Mya

68 occurrences of Tapinotomaria on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

68 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

Road Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.15°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.85°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.92°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.44°N, 104.90°WEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°ESkinner Ranch — 30.28°N, 103.33°WHess — 30.36°N, 103.16°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.17°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WPhosphoria — 42.57°N, 108.41°WPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°WCutoff — 31.99°N, 104.92°WNeal Ranch — 30.42°N, 102.97°WHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°ELower Limestone — 55.72°N, 4.76°W

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The named rock units Tapinotomaria 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.

Tapinotomaria and its relatives

Permian

Where Tapinotomaria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Tapinotomaria, 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

8 references

Each of the 68 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Tapinotomaria 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 itPhymatopleuridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batten 1956