Thaumatomma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThaumatocyprididaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 245.19 Mya.

Permian — about 16 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.14 Mya247 Mya260.4 Mya244.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Thaumatomma 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

17 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

2 formations

Episkopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EMarelb — 45.07°N, 28.78°E

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The named rock units Thaumatomma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thaumatomma and its relatives

Permian

Where Thaumatomma and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Thaumatomma, 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

Each of the 17 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

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No picture of Thaumatomma 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 Thaumatomma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thaumatomma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itThaumatocyprididae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kornicker and Sohn 1976