Tetratormentum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetratormentidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Tetratormentum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tetratormentum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetratormentum and its relatives
PermianWhere Tetratormentum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Quadricaulis3 sites
- Albaillella triangularis2 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum2 sites
- Cauletella manica2 sites
- Copicyntra shaiwaensis2 sites
- Foremanhelena triangula2 sites
- Ishigaum2 sites
- Ishigaum trifustis2 sites
- Nazarovella gracilis2 sites
- Nazarovella scalae2 sites
- Neoalbaillella ornithoformis2 sites
- Quadriremis inflata2 sites
- Spongosphaeradiscus shaiwaensis2 sites
- Triplanospongos musashiensis2 sites
- Albaillella asymmetrica1 site
- Albaillella sinuata1 site
- Copicyntra1 site
- Hegleria mammilla1 site
- Latentibifistula triacanthophora1 site
- Latentifistula1 site
- Latentifistula crux1 site
- Latentifistula patagilaterala1 site
- Parafollicucullus1 site
- Pseudoalbaillella scalprata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tetratormentum, 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
3 references- Conodonts, radiolarians and ostracodes in the Permian E-Lert Formation, Loei Fold Belt, Indochina Terrane, Thailand1
- Lopingian (Upper Permian) radiolarian biostratigraphy of south China1
- 贵州紫云晒瓦群中放射虫Neoalbaillella 动物群的发现 (Discovery of the Neoalbaillella radiolarian fauna in the Shaiwa Group of Ziyun District, Guizhou)1
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. 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 Tetratormentum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tetratormentum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetratormentum 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 itTetratormentidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nazarov and Ormiston 1985