Tococladus

Tococladus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TococladidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 314.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 7 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307.4 Mya264.28 Mya316 Mya259 Mya

7 occurrences of Tococladus 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

7 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

4 formations

Salagou — 43.64°N, 3.33°ESalagou — 43.68°N, 3.41°EKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WAmanak — 51.88°N, 54.84°E

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The named rock units Tococladus 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.

Tococladus and its relatives

Permian

Where Tococladus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tococladus, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Tococladus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tococladus 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 itTococladidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1966