Aulotortus
Searched as Aulotortus sinuosus pragsoides. The Paleobiology Database treats Aulotortus as the accepted name.
No picture of Aulotortus 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 Aulotortus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InvolutinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Aulotortus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aulotortus 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.
Aulotortus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Aulotortus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
450 taxa- Ophthalmidium21 sites
- Reophax16 sites
- Glomospira14 sites
- Duostomina13 sites
- Gastropoda13 sites
- Planiinvoluta12 sites
- Tubiphytes11 sites
- Bacinella10 sites
- Diplopora10 sites
- Nodosaria10 sites
- Alpinophragmium9 sites
- Ammobaculites9 sites
- Glomospirella9 sites
- Microtubus9 sites
- Radiomura cautica9 sites
- Trochammina9 sites
- Cayeuxia8 sites
- Colospongia8 sites
- Diplotremina8 sites
- Duostominidae8 sites
- Galeanella8 sites
- Shamovella obscura8 sites
- Triasina hantkeni8 sites
- Agathammina austroalpina7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Aulotortus, 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- Norian calcareous Algae from the Matese Mountains (northern Campania, Italy)1
- An Anisian megablock in northern central Anatolia: micropaleontologic, stratigraphic and tectonic implications for the rifting stage of Karakaya Basin, Turkey1
Each of the 2 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 Aulotortus 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 Aulotortus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulotortus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itInvolutinidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weynschenk 1956