Tomiopsis confusus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TomiopsisPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Tomiopsis confusus 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
14 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
- Oxtrack Formation13
- Letham Formation · Productus Creek Group1
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The named rock units Tomiopsis confusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tomiopsis confusus and its relatives
PermianWhere Tomiopsis confusus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Aperispirifer ovalis12 sites
- Paucispinauria concava9 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli8 sites
- Volsellina ornatissima5 sites
- Fusispirifer4 sites
- Etheripecten latus3 sites
- Magniplicatina perflecta3 sites
- Aphanaia2 sites
- Cyrtella nobilis2 sites
- Striochondria2 sites
- Wairakispirifer microstriatus2 sites
- Aperispirifer wairakiensis1 site
- Bransonia australe1 site
- Crockfordia multinodata1 site
- Echinalosia robusta1 site
- Etheripecten1 site
- Etheripecten chandleri1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Fletcherithyris braxtonensis1 site
- Fletcherithyris parkesi1 site
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana1 site
- Nuculopsis imperta1 site
- Pachymyonia1 site
- Paucispinauria paucispinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Tomiopsis confusus, 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
3 references- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia11
- Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia2
- The classification and description of Permian Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tomiopsis confusus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tomiopsis confusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tomiopsis confusus 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 itTomiopsis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waterhouse 1968)