Temnocheilus

Temnocheilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TemnocheilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 12 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 12 of 29 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 29 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 1 occurrence289–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 3 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences335.9 Mya243.43 Mya345 Mya239 Mya

29 occurrences of Temnocheilus 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

29 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

Chhidru — 32.51°N, 71.93°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.83°EChhidru — 32.25°N, 71.14°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.03°EGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WSchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EMougoui Ayoun — 31.18°N, 4.11°WYeso — 34.18°N, 106.76°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WClyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°WWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EConemaugh — 39.98°N, 81.79°WBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EKamenskaya — 48.42°N, 39.21°EZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.64°WSaginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°W

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The named rock units Temnocheilus 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.

Temnocheilus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Temnocheilus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Temnocheilus, 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

18 references

Each of the 29 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Temnocheilus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Temnocheilus 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 itTemnocheilidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1844)