Tarthinia

No picture of Tarthinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tarthinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChabakoviaceaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 529 Mya to 493.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 488.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–533 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences529 Mya493.5 Mya540 Mya488 Mya

9 occurrences of Tarthinia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

9 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

7 formations

Salaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°ESalaany Gol — 47.15°N, 96.90°ETsagaan Oloom-Lower Bayan Gol — 46.87°N, 96.30°EMatoppa — 39.35°N, 8.45°EWilberns — 30.49°N, 99.12°WDotsero — 39.73°N, 107.32°WZhangxia — 36.67°N, 116.98°EXiannudong — 32.60°N, 106.48°E

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

Tarthinia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tarthinia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tarthinia, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Tarthinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tarthinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itChabakoviacea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Drozdova 1980