Thamniscus perplexus
No picture of Thamniscus perplexus 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 Thamniscus perplexus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThamniscusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Thamniscus perplexus 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Thamniscus perplexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thamniscus perplexus and its relatives
PermianWhere Thamniscus perplexus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Spinofenestella geinitzi2 sites
- Acanthocladia anceps1 site
- Dyscritella angularis1 site
- Dyscritella tenuimuralis1 site
- Kalvariella typica1 site
- Kingopora ehrenbergi1 site
- Rectifenestella retiformis1 site
- Synocladia dubia1 site
- Synocladia geometrica1 site
- Ulrichotrypa incrustata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thamniscus perplexus, 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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Thamniscus perplexus 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 Thamniscus perplexus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thamniscus perplexus 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 itThamniscus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ernst 2004