Tomiopsis
Searched as Tomiopsis angulata nana. The Paleobiology Database treats Tomiopsis as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IngelarellinaePBDB
- 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 most 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tomiopsis 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Tomiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tomiopsis and its relatives
PermianWhere Tomiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
513 taxa- Aperispirifer ovalis12 sites
- Terrakea brachythaera12 sites
- Paucispinauria concava11 sites
- Vacunella curvata11 sites
- Ingelarella mantuanensis10 sites
- Merismopteria macroptera10 sites
- Sulciplica transversa10 sites
- Astartila intrepida9 sites
- Etheripecten leniusculus9 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli8 sites
- Glendonia duodecimcostata8 sites
- Stutchburia compressa8 sites
- Etheripecten7 sites
- Paragilledia ulladullensis7 sites
- Pseudostrophalosia blakei7 sites
- Pseudosyrinx7 sites
- Cyrtella nobilis6 sites
- Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis6 sites
- Myonia (Myomedia) carinata6 sites
- Fletcherithyris5 sites
- Keeneia ocula5 sites
- Maorielasma imperatum5 sites
- Mesopunctia macropustulosus5 sites
- Neospirifer5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 192 sites for Tomiopsis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tomiopsis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Tomiopsis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itIngelarellinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Benediktova 1956