Towapteria

No picture of Towapteria 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 Towapteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BakevelliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 251.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 53 of 123 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 70 of 123 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 123 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 11 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 26 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 73 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya251.1 Mya291 Mya246.1 Mya

123 occurrences of Towapteria on record, most of them in the Early 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

123 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

22 formations

Daye — 30.30°N, 106.85°EDaye — 29.71°N, 113.93°EDaye — 25.59°N, 106.65°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.67°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EFeixianguan — 28.10°N, 105.04°EFeixianguan — 29.49°N, 106.40°EFeixianguan — 29.91°N, 106.52°EFeixianguan — 25.94°N, 104.50°EFeixianguan — 28.96°N, 106.92°EFeixianguan — 27.46°N, 107.14°EFeixianguan — 26.10°N, 105.30°EFeixianguan — 28.44°N, 104.72°EFeixianguan — 24.94°N, 104.69°EFeixianguan — 26.02°N, 104.67°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.70°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.52°EWerfen — 46.65°N, 11.75°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.61°EBellerophon — 46.58°N, 11.70°EBellerophon — 46.64°N, 11.84°EBellerophon — 46.68°N, 11.91°ELuolou — 24.96°N, 106.65°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°ELuolou — 24.43°N, 107.37°ELuolou — 24.81°N, 106.55°EMajiaoling — 23.50°N, 107.55°EMajiaoling — 22.42°N, 107.70°EMajiaoling — 23.60°N, 109.28°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°ELongtan — 26.14°N, 105.28°ELongtan — 26.50°N, 105.58°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EYelang — 29.49°N, 106.40°EYanshi — 26.02°N, 117.21°ETenjinnoki — 38.70°N, 141.33°EBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EDouling — 27.69°N, 113.22°EHuanggangliang — 42.93°N, 117.65°EGujo — 35.37°N, 135.13°EKanokura — 38.99°N, 141.53°EWujiaping — 30.18°N, 108.59°ESakamotozawa — 39.92°N, 141.20°EHong Ngai — 23.21°N, 105.25°EYinkeng — 30.92°N, 119.99°E

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The named rock units Towapteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Towapteria and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Towapteria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

413 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Towapteria, 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

35 references

Each of the 123 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 Towapteria 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 Towapteria, 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 itBakevelliidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nakazawa and Newell 1968