Tatara

A picture published with the record for Tatara. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Tatara 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

3 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

3 formations

Waikareka Volcanic — 44.64°S, 171.01°EDeborah Volcanic — 45.18°S, 170.91°EDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°E

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

Tatara and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Tatara and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tatara, 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

Each 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

Media content2

Picture of Tatara

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Gi00
Licence
CC Attribution-ShareAlike
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1950