Torastarte bensoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorastartePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiniidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiniidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiniidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Torastarte bensoni 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Bouraké Formation2
- Ngutunui Formation · Newcastle Group1
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The named rock units Torastarte bensoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Torastarte bensoni and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Torastarte bensoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Metastenodiscus zealandicus5 sites
- Clavigera4 sites
- Kalentera4 sites
- Fissirhynchia pacifica3 sites
- Paraconularia matauraensis3 sites
- Rastelligera3 sites
- Zugmayerella taringaturaensis3 sites
- Arcticopora kobayashii2 sites
- Arcticopora lobatula2 sites
- Callospiriferina kawhiana2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Eoheteropora2 sites
- Hectoria bisulcata2 sites
- Minetrigonia2 sites
- Parallelodon2 sites
- Psioidiella2 sites
- Raha2 sites
- Rhaetina rainei2 sites
- Sakawairhynchia hugonensis2 sites
- Antiquilima1 site
- Cenoceras1 site
- Clavigera drotae1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Kalentera marwicki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Torastarte bensoni, 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- New Caledonian Triassic Bryozoa5
- Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Marokopa area, southwest Auckland, New Zealand1
- New fossil localities in the Richmond Group, Nelson1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Torastarte bensoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Torastarte bensoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTorastarte through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1953