Taioma

Taioma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FusininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 8 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya85 Mya15 Mya

43 occurrences of Taioma on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

43 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

11 formations

La Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WKauru — 45.05°S, 170.77°ESanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°EGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WKangilia — 70.33°N, 53.08°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WCerro Cazador — 51.54°S, 72.34°W

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The named rock units Taioma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Taioma and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Taioma and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Taioma, 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

13 references

Each of the 43 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Taioma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access 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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What may have been alongside itFusininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay and Marwick 1937