Tamarella elliptica
No picture of Tamarella elliptica 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 Tamarella elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsilothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Laqueidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Laqueidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Laqueidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 110.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tamarella elliptica on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Tamarella elliptica and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tamarella elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Raphidonema macropora1 site
- Raphidonema porcatum1 site
- Tamarella juddi1 site
- Tamarella vesta1 site
- Tremacystia anastomans1 site
- Tremacystia clavata1 site
- Tremacystia irregularis1 site
- Vectella1 site
- Vectella angusta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tamarella elliptica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tamarella elliptica 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 Tamarella elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tamarella elliptica 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 itPsilothyris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walker 1868)