Tectamichelinia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicheliniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 6.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya322.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Tectamichelinia 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

3 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

1 formation

Imo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°W

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

Tectamichelinia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tectamichelinia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tectamichelinia, 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

1 reference

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

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Tectamichelinia 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 itMicheliniinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.