Todites

Todites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OsmundaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 261 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 375 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 10 of 375 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 17 of 375 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 109 of 375 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 104 of 375 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 80 of 375 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 39 of 375 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 375 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 375 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 375 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 375 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 375 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 375 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 375 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 375 occurrences280–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–243 Mya — about 13 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 23 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 26 occurrences224–215 Mya — about 26 occurrences215–205 Mya — about 27 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 42 occurrences196–187 Mya — about 34 occurrences187–177 Mya — about 37 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 56 occurrences168–159 Mya — about 39 occurrences159–149 Mya — about 24 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 10 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–103 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences103–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences266.9 Mya5.333 Mya280 Mya0 Mya

375 occurrences of Todites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

375 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

140 formations

Rajmahal — 25.23°N, 87.49°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WHongqi — 42.80°N, 126.40°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WBataowuan — 43.00°N, 93.20°EBataowuan — 44.00°N, 88.00°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 89.10°ELishan — 25.40°N, 117.40°ELishan — 24.50°N, 117.40°ELishan — 27.00°N, 118.40°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WShangonghuo — 43.50°N, 85.00°EShangonghuo — 45.60°N, 85.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 87.20°EXishanyao — 42.60°N, 93.20°ELongjiagou — 33.60°N, 104.80°ELongjiagou — 33.90°N, 106.50°EKangsu — 39.90°N, 75.00°EIwamura — 36.60°N, 139.20°ENegoya — 37.00°N, 137.80°ELower Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.30°EErfurt — 51.75°N, 11.03°EJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 22.96°N, 78.95°ESivaganga — 9.85°N, 78.48°ESivaganga — 9.87°N, 78.50°ESivaganga — 9.63°N, 78.62°EHeiberg — 80.27°N, 84.87°WHeiberg — 79.26°N, 89.35°WHuizachal — 23.00°N, 98.50°WHuizachal — 20.67°N, 98.52°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°E

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The named rock units Todites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 116 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 142 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Todites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Todites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

514 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 282 sites for Todites, and this reads 240 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

110 references

Each of the 375 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. 98 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Todites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itOsmundaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1900