Tautosia elegans
No picture of Tautosia elegans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tautosia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TautosiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
33 occurrences of Tautosia elegans 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
33 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
8 formations
- Bell Canyon Formation13
- Capitan Formation7
- Rustler Formation4
- Bone Spring Formation2
- Cathedral Mountain Formation1
- Skinner Ranch Formation1
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The named rock units Tautosia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tautosia elegans and its relatives
PermianWhere Tautosia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
282 taxa- Paraspiriferina billingsi15 sites
- Anteridocus swallovianus14 sites
- Derbyia14 sites
- Ombonia guadalupensis13 sites
- Tautosia shumardiana13 sites
- Composita emarginata12 sites
- Dielasma12 sites
- Heterelasma shumardianum12 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis12 sites
- Reticulariina12 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium12 sites
- Arionthia lamaria11 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata11 sites
- Composita affinis11 sites
- Orbicoelia guadalupensis11 sites
- Scapharina levis11 sites
- Thamnosia capitanensis11 sites
- Dielasma sulcatum10 sites
- Hustedia opsia10 sites
- Ptilotorhynchus delicatum10 sites
- Sarganostega pressa10 sites
- Sestropoma cribriferum10 sites
- Anomaloria anomala9 sites
- Collemataria spatulata9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Tautosia elegans, 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
4 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI18
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda9
- Paleontology of Rustler Formation, Culberson County, Texas4
- The Guadalupian fauna2
Each of the 33 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 Tautosia elegans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tautosia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tautosia elegans 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 itTautosia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)