Tissintia

Tissintia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterorthidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 450.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 61 of 61 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 8 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 14 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 12 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 11 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461 Mya450.1 Mya469.9 Mya444.7 Mya

61 occurrences of Tissintia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

61 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

20 formations

Meadowtown Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WFfairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WWeston Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WBetton Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WLas Plantas — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLas Plantas — 29.75°S, 68.65°WFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Conglomerates — 52.00°N, 4.00°WDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°EContaya — 7.15°S, 74.57°WBrejo Fundeiro — 41.00°N, 8.00°WTaddrist — 28.00°N, 9.00°WCalcaires et marnes schisteuses — 43.56°N, 3.31°EFonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WEl Castro — 43.58°N, 5.84°WFfairfach Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WCoroico — 15.48°S, 68.62°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EGuezzart — 30.35°N, 5.85°WLower Ktaoua — 31.89°N, 3.97°W

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The named rock units Tissintia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tissintia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tissintia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Tissintia, 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

18 references

Each of the 61 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Tissintia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.