Tapashanites robustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapashanitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tapashanites robustus 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tapashanites robustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tapashanites robustus and its relatives
PermianWhere Tapashanites robustus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Tapashanites chaotianensis3 sites
- Tapashanites mingyuexiaensis3 sites
- Pseudostephanites nodosus2 sites
- Pseudotirolites2 sites
- Sinoceltites2 sites
- Sinoceltites costatus2 sites
- Sinoceltites sichuanensis2 sites
- Tapashanites latiumbilicus2 sites
- Tapashanites tenuicostatus2 sites
- Changhsingoceras1 site
- Fusichonetes soochowensis1 site
- Huananoceras1 site
- Leptodus1 site
- Mingyuexiaceras radiatum1 site
- Pseudogastrioceras szechuanense1 site
- Pseudostephanites costatus1 site
- Qianjiangoceras1 site
- Shangsilites guangyuanensis1 site
- Shevyrevites1 site
- Sinoceltites curvatus1 site
- Sinoceltites opimus1 site
- Tapashanites floriformis1 site
- Transennatia gratiosa1 site
- Xenodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tapashanites robustus, 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
3 referencesEach of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Tapashanites robustus 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 Tapashanites robustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tapashanites robustus 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.
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What may have been alongside itTapashanites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao et al. 1978