Octatormentum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudolitheliidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 2.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 256.8 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
11 occurrences of Octatormentum 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
11 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Octatormentum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Octatormentum and its relatives
PermianWhere Octatormentum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Ishigaum trifustis8 sites
- Nazarovella gracilis8 sites
- Triplanospongos musashiensis8 sites
- Cauletella7 sites
- Cauletella paradoxa7 sites
- Foremanhelena circula7 sites
- Foremanhelena triangula7 sites
- Grandetortura nipponica7 sites
- Ishigaum longispina7 sites
- Nazarovella scalae7 sites
- Tetragregnon longispinatum7 sites
- Areolicaudatus semiglobosa6 sites
- Cauletella manica6 sites
- Foremanhelena robusta6 sites
- Ishigaum6 sites
- Ishigaum fusinum6 sites
- Ishigaum obesum6 sites
- Ishigaum tristylum6 sites
- Latentifistula crux6 sites
- Ormistonella6 sites
- Ormistonella adhaerens6 sites
- Ormistonella cylindrata6 sites
- Polyfistula regularis6 sites
- Quadricaulis femoris6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Octatormentum, 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
4 references- Radiolarian evolution during the latest Permian in south China5
- Taxonomy of order Latentifistularia (Radiolaria) from the latest Permian in southern Guangxi, China4
- Lopingian (Upper Permian) radiolarian biostratigraphy of south China1
- Permo-Triassic radiolaria from the Semanggol Formation, northwest Peninsular Malaysia1
Each of the 11 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 Octatormentum 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 Octatormentum, 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 itPseudolitheliidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nazarov and Ormiston 1985