Tanaoblastus
No picture of Tanaoblastus 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 Tanaoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GranatocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tanaoblastus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tanaoblastus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tanaoblastus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Tanaoblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Amplexus1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Australosutura llanoensis1 site
- Brachythyris chouteauensis1 site
- Breviphillipsia semiteretis1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Chonetes logani1 site
- Chonetipustula concentrica1 site
- Cranaena1 site
- Cyathaxonia1 site
- Dictyoclostus arcuatus1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Griffithidella doris1 site
- Hadroblastus convexus1 site
- Leptagonia analoga1 site
- Leptopora1 site
- Linoproductus ovatus1 site
- Monadoblastus granulosus1 site
- Namuropyge1 site
- Nucleospira1 site
- Nunnaspis stitti1 site
- Orophocrinus1 site
- Pentremites1 site
- Phaenoblastus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tanaoblastus, 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
2 references- Paleontology of the Caballero and Lake Valley Formations (Lower Mississippian) west of the Rio Grande, south-central New Mexico1
- The Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook Series of Iowa1
Each of the 2 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 Tanaoblastus 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 Tanaoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tanaoblastus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGranatocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fay 1961