Toquimaella kayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimatrypaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Toquimaella kayi on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Toquimaella kayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Toquimaella kayi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Toquimaella kayi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Cyrtina4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica3 sites
- Ancillotoechia3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Brachyprion mirabilis3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Dolerorthis3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Gypidula pseudogaleata3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Machaeraria3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Strophonella bohemica3 sites
- Carinagypa2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Cortezorthis2 sites
- Cyrtinaella causa2 sites
- Iridistrophia2 sites
- Katuniella2 sites
- Leptaenisca2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Toquimaella kayi, 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- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda3
- Devonian brachiopods from the Quadrithyris Zone (Upper Lochkovian), Canadian arctic archipelago2
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Toquimaella kayi 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 Toquimaella kayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Toquimaella kayi 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 itMimatrypa through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1967