Torcapella

No picture of Torcapella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Torcapella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BarremitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence141 Mya125.77 Mya145.6 Mya120.9 Mya

21 occurrences of Torcapella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

21 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

2 formations

Taboulouart — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTaboulouart — 31.26°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WTaboulouart — 30.72°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.61°N, 9.73°WDonji Milanovac — 44.53°N, 22.04°E

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The named rock units Torcapella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Torcapella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Torcapella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Torcapella, 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

4 references

Each of the 21 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

Media content0

No picture of Torcapella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Torcapella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Torcapella 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 itBarremitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.