Taihungshania

Taihungshania

Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaihungshaniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Taihungshaniidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 72 occurrencesOrdovician — about 72 of 72 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 6 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 7 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 7 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 7 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 7 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 7 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 6 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya461.1 Mya487 Mya457.6 Mya

72 occurrences of Taihungshania on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

72 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

32 formations

Meitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EHongsiya — 28.00°N, 105.00°EHongsiya — 24.00°N, 102.00°EHongsiya — 26.00°N, 102.00°EHongsiya — 27.00°N, 102.00°ELaozai — 23.00°N, 104.00°EChaochiapa — 32.76°N, 106.36°EChaochiapa — 32.90°N, 106.27°EDachengsi — 30.00°N, 103.00°EDawan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 111.37°EXiaotan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EZhaojiaba — 32.00°N, 106.00°EZhaojiaba — 33.00°N, 106.00°ESetso — 43.00°N, 3.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 107.00°EFengdong'gun — 28.00°N, 105.00°ESanqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EMiaopo — 31.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 31.00°N, 111.00°EShinianpan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EQingNiDong — 30.00°N, 98.00°ELa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°ECouches de la Cluse de L'Orb — 43.00°N, 3.00°E

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The named rock units Taihungshania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taihungshania and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Taihungshania and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Taihungshania, 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

23 references

Each of the 72 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Taihungshania

Credit
Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sun 1931