Tealliocaris

Tealliocaris is an extinct genus of pygocephalomorphans that lived from the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous periods in Europe and North America. The genus was established in 1908 by Ben Peach, and many species have been assigned to it since, though some are now invalid or have been reassigned to other genera. Although it can be inferred that T. loudonensis was originally intended as the type species of Tealliocaris, this species is now deemed a junior synonym of T. woodwardi, first described as a species of Anthrapalaemon in 1877, and thus T. woodwardi is currently deemed the type species of the genus.

Tealliocaris

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TealliocarididaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 316.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous366–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358.86 Mya318.7 Mya366 Mya316 Mya

8 occurrences of Tealliocaris 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

8 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

5 formations

Gullane — 56.04°N, 2.83°WGullane — 55.98°N, 3.26°WBois des Mouches — 50.57°N, 5.68°EBois des Mouches — 50.34°N, 4.87°EEvieux — 50.45°N, 5.06°EManse Burn — 55.92°N, 4.33°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.85°N, 3.70°W

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The named rock units Tealliocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tealliocaris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tealliocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tealliocaris, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tealliocaris

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Tealliocaris 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTealliocarididae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peach 1908