Tetrataxis

No picture of Tetrataxis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tetrataxis itself, so it was not used. 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 Tetrataxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetrataxidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 176 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 327 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 193 of 327 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 112 of 327 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 327 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 327 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 18 of 327 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 327 occurrences397–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–357 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–344 Mya — about 10 occurrences344–337 Mya — about 30 occurrences337–331 Mya — about 34 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 8 occurrences324–317 Mya — about 14 occurrences317–311 Mya — about 20 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 13 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 63 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 8 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 9 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 13 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 17 occurrences271–264 Mya — about 28 occurrences264–257 Mya — about 8 occurrences257–251 Mya — about 27 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–204 Mya — about 8 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 8 occurrences382.31 Mya205.7 Mya397 Mya198 Mya

327 occurrences of Tetrataxis 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

327 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

103 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 36.97°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 37.05°N, 96.41°WOread Limestone — 37.13°N, 96.20°WOread Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.07°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 37.76°N, 95.99°WOread Limestone — 38.03°N, 95.86°WOread Limestone — 38.09°N, 95.84°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 38.34°N, 95.64°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 38.84°N, 95.39°WOread Limestone — 38.78°N, 95.19°WOread Limestone — 38.92°N, 95.25°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.11°N, 95.11°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 40.96°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 40.99°N, 96.19°WOread Limestone — 41.01°N, 95.88°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.35°N, 94.30°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WNabeyama — 36.40°N, 139.60°ENabeyama — 36.48°N, 139.56°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°ELucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WLucan — 53.63°N, 6.73°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.61°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.32°N, 98.35°WMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°WKamiyozawa — 35.76°N, 139.19°EKamiyozawa — 35.76°N, 139.25°EMikata — 35.19°N, 134.63°EWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°EGyanyima — 30.72°N, 80.70°EAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 41.85°N, 107.28°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WJanesville Shale — 39.08°N, 96.13°WJanesville Shale — 38.93°N, 96.05°WJanesville Shale — 38.37°N, 96.33°WJanesville Shale — 38.03°N, 96.28°WLa Pasada — 35.67°N, 105.28°WLane — 53.55°N, 6.13°WLane — 53.58°N, 6.33°WHuai Tak — 18.72°N, 99.88°EYokoyama — 35.21°N, 134.63°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WHolmpatrick — 53.58°N, 6.22°WHolmpatrick — 53.57°N, 6.40°WHolmpatrick — 53.57°N, 6.13°WBeykoz — 41.63°N, 33.28°EKapp Duner — 71.00°N, 29.00°EWood Siding — 39.26°N, 96.25°WWood Siding — 39.25°N, 95.90°W

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The named rock units Tetrataxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetrataxis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tetrataxis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,730 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 258 sites for Tetrataxis, 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

111 references

Each of the 327 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. 99 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 content0

No picture of Tetrataxis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tetrataxis itself, so it was not used.

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 Tetrataxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetrataxis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1854