Grandetortura nipponica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrandetorturaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
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.
29 occurrences of Grandetortura nipponica 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
29 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
4 formations
- Dalong Formation12
- Fang Chert Formation6
- Changxing Formation · Lower Yangtze Block Group4
- Unazawa Formation1
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The named rock units Grandetortura nipponica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Grandetortura nipponica and its relatives
PermianWhere Grandetortura nipponica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Ishigaum trifustis23 sites
- Triplanospongos musashiensis23 sites
- Nazarovella gracilis21 sites
- Hegleria mammilla18 sites
- Stigmosphaerostylus itsukaichiensis18 sites
- Albaillella levis17 sites
- Albaillella triangularis17 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum chiangdaoensis16 sites
- Quadricaulis16 sites
- Quadriremis inflata16 sites
- Neoalbaillella optima14 sites
- Copicyntra12 sites
- Foremanhelena circula12 sites
- Ishigaum longispina12 sites
- Orbiculiformidae12 sites
- Entactinosphaera pseudocimelia11 sites
- Tetragregnon longispinatum11 sites
- Areolicaudatus semiglobosa10 sites
- Cauletella paradoxa10 sites
- Ishigaum tristylum10 sites
- Cauletella manica9 sites
- Foremanhelena triangula9 sites
- Ishigaum obesum9 sites
- Ormistonella adhaerens9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Grandetortura nipponica, 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
6 references- Late Permian to Middle Triassic radiolarian faunas from northern Thailand12
- Radiolarian evolution during the latest Permian in south China6
- Taxonomy of order Latentifistularia (Radiolaria) from the latest Permian in southern Guangxi, China6
- Changxingian (Upper Permian) radiolarian fauna from Meishan D Section, Changxing, Zhejiang, China, and its possible paleoecological significance4
- An Upper Permian coiled radiolarian from Itsukaichi, central Japan1
Each of the 29 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Grandetortura nipponica 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 Grandetortura nipponica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grandetortura nipponica 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.
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What may have been alongside itGrandetortura through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sashida and Tonishi 1991