Tentaculitida

Tentaculitida

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
TentaculitaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At least 353 million years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 1329 occurrencesOrdovician — about 235 of 1329 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 345 of 1329 occurrencesDevonian — about 501 of 1329 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 47 of 1329 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 1329 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 169 of 1329 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 22 of 1329 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1329 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1329 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 1329 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1329 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1329 occurrences517–504 Mya — about 1 occurrence492–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–454 Mya — about 25 occurrences454–442 Mya — about 220 occurrences442–429 Mya — about 203 occurrences429–417 Mya — about 164 occurrences417–404 Mya — about 148 occurrences404–392 Mya — about 87 occurrences392–379 Mya — about 190 occurrences379–367 Mya — about 33 occurrences367–354 Mya — about 10 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 7 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 37 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–242 Mya — about 180 occurrences242–229 Mya — about 11 occurrences179–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence505.3 Mya152.21 Mya517 Mya142 Mya

1,329 occurrences of Tentaculitida on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

1,329 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

343 formations

Wordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWaynesville — 39.36°N, 84.36°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WIvane Horizon — 51.25°N, 21.57°EIvane Horizon — 51.42°N, 23.33°EIvane Horizon — 51.08°N, 19.58°EDaye — 29.45°N, 111.06°EDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EDaye — 25.59°N, 106.65°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.67°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°ERoss Brook — 45.62°N, 61.97°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.41°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 76.21°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.80°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WRoss Point — 45.62°N, 61.97°WElm Point — 51.69°N, 98.93°WElm Point — 51.45°N, 98.79°WElm Point — 51.32°N, 98.35°WElm Point — 51.12°N, 98.37°WElm Point — 50.77°N, 98.23°WElm Point — 50.77°N, 98.25°WElm Point — 50.54°N, 98.01°WMoenkopi — 37.18°N, 113.22°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WMoenkopi — 37.06°N, 113.69°WMoenkopi — 37.11°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.03°N, 113.27°WMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WSzin Marl — 48.47°N, 20.68°ESzin Marl — 48.48°N, 20.61°ERochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WRochester Shale — 39.57°N, 78.84°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.67°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.34°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.26°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°EBorshchov and Chortkov horizons — 51.25°N, 21.57°EBorshchov and Chortkov horizons — 51.42°N, 23.33°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 24.85°S, 50.34°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EEke Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 39.06°N, 84.44°WKope — 39.03°N, 84.54°WKope — 38.79°N, 84.21°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 32.18°S, 18.90°EGydo — 33.77°S, 20.92°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EGydo — 32.40°S, 20.67°ESodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.29°N, 76.74°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°W

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The named rock units Tentaculitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 319 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 153 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tentaculitida and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tentaculitida and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,948 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,119 sites for Tentaculitida, and this reads 240 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

284 references

Each of the 1,329 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. 272 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 Tentaculitida

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tentaculitida 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 itTentaculita through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ljaschenko 1955)