Tornquistia ambiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TornquistiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
6 occurrences of Tornquistia ambiensis 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
6 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 Tornquistia ambiensis 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.
Tornquistia ambiensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Tornquistia ambiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Cleiothyridina semiconcava4 sites
- Echinalosia nodosa3 sites
- Fredericksolasma sublaevis3 sites
- Marginifera (Arenaria) transversa3 sites
- Martiniopsis subpentagonalis3 sites
- Pteroplecta niger3 sites
- Spirigerella numismalis3 sites
- Strophalosia (Heteralosia) tenuispina3 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Costiferina spiralis2 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis2 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta2 sites
- Hustedia indica2 sites
- Johncarteria devia2 sites
- Marginifera (Arenaria) ovalis2 sites
- Neospirifer trimuensis2 sites
- Spiriferina2 sites
- "Dielasma" hochstetteri semicarinata1 site
- "Spirifer" (Neospirifer) cameratus curta1 site
- Astartella consimilis1 site
- Bandoproductus hemiglobicus1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) orientalis1 site
- Bellerophon squamatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tornquistia ambiensis, 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- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range4
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud1
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 31
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tornquistia ambiensis 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 Tornquistia ambiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornquistia ambiensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itTornquistia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)