Towapteria scythica

No picture of Towapteria scythica was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 scythica, 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 least 802 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 251.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 65 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 61 of 65 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 65 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 18 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 20 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 20 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.902 Mya – 251.1 Mya254.6 Mya246.5 Mya

65 occurrences of Towapteria scythica 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

65 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

9 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°ELuolou — 24.96°N, 106.65°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°ELuolou — 24.43°N, 107.37°ELuolou — 24.81°N, 106.55°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.70°EWerfen — 46.65°N, 11.75°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.61°EMajiaoling — 23.50°N, 107.55°EMajiaoling — 23.60°N, 109.28°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°EYelang — 29.49°N, 106.40°EHong Ngai — 23.21°N, 105.25°EYinkeng — 30.92°N, 119.99°E

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The named rock units Towapteria scythica 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.

Towapteria scythica and its relatives

Early Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Towapteria scythica, 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

19 references

Each of the 65 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. 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Towapteria scythica was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Towapteria scythica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wirth 1936)