Tenuimena planissima
No picture of Tenuimena planissima 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 Tenuimena planissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TenuimenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 461.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tenuimena planissima on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Tenuimena planissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tenuimena planissima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tenuimena planissima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Bekella paula1 site
- Chonetoidea1 site
- Christiania hastata1 site
- Hesperonomiella uzunbulakensis1 site
- Metacamarella kopalica1 site
- Taphrorthis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tenuimena planissima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tenuimena planissima 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 Tenuimena planissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tenuimena planissima 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 itTenuimena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikitina et al. 2006