Thomasaria

No picture of Thomasaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Thomasaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThomasariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 11 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–373 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–372 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379 Mya358.86 Mya388.8 Mya345.9 Mya

14 occurrences of Thomasaria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

14 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

9 formations

Solonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°EBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°ESly Gap — 36.90°N, 107.30°WSly Gap — 32.92°N, 105.90°WLime Creek — 43.00°N, 93.00°WIndependence Shale — 42.07°N, 92.07°WRangari limestone — 30.76°S, 150.36°EKoh-e Giru — 33.98°N, 68.05°EGrands Breux — 50.22°N, 4.51°ENeuville — 50.08°N, 4.53°E

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The named rock units Thomasaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Thomasaria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thomasaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Thomasaria, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 Thomasaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Thomasaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itThomasariidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.