Towapteria peracuta
No picture of Towapteria peracuta 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 Towapteria peracuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TowapteriaPBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Towapteria peracuta 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
14 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 Towapteria peracuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Towapteria peracuta and its relatives
PermianWhere Towapteria peracuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Unionites jacobi10 sites
- Volsellina carinata7 sites
- Eumorphotis striatocostata6 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) preromangica5 sites
- Gardenapecten trinkeri5 sites
- Stutchburia tschernyschewi5 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga4 sites
- Edmondia hautmanni4 sites
- Gardenapecten comelicanus4 sites
- Lovaralucina covidi4 sites
- Schizodus obscurus4 sites
- Acharax frenademezi3 sites
- Ladinomya fosteri3 sites
- Palaeolima badiotica3 sites
- Vacunella elongata3 sites
- Bakevellia kingi2 sites
- Calophyllum columnare2 sites
- Edmondia rudis2 sites
- Eumorphotis praecurrens2 sites
- Pernopecten tirolense2 sites
- Promytilus merlai2 sites
- Stutchburia2 sites
- Stutchburia costata2 sites
- Archaeocidaris ladina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Towapteria peracuta, 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
2 references- Bivalves from the Changhsingian (upper Permian) Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy): ancestors of Lower Triassic post-extinction benthic communities12
- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo2
Each of the 14 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 Towapteria peracuta 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 Towapteria peracuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Towapteria peracuta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTowapteria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stache 1878)