Technophorus

Technophorus

Jack Kallmeyer · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
TechnophoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.3 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 31 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 23 of 31 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 31 occurrencesSilurian492–490 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 6 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 6 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488.3 Mya438.6 Mya492 Mya432 Mya

31 occurrences of Technophorus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

31 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

15 formations

Tomahawk — 22.47°S, 136.77°ETomahawk — 21.95°S, 131.33°ETomahawk — 22.88°S, 135.46°ETomahawk — 22.45°S, 136.95°EPacoota — 23.87°S, 134.86°EPacoota — 24.13°S, 132.98°EPacoota — 23.66°S, 134.49°EPacoota — 23.81°S, 133.78°EKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.09°N, 84.50°WNinmaroo — 22.25°S, 140.26°ENinmaroo — 22.58°S, 140.32°ESnake Hill — 42.74°N, 73.69°WSnake Hill — 42.62°N, 73.79°WDecorah — 44.95°N, 93.07°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSella — 21.38°S, 64.72°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNora — 23.05°S, 139.23°ENicolet River — 45.45°N, 73.28°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBarnhart — 37.89°N, 90.26°WWangjiawan — 33.15°N, 109.15°ELorraine — 42.00°N, 83.21°W

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

Technophorus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Technophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Technophorus, 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

13 references

Each of the 31 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Technophorus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jack Kallmeyer
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Technophorus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTechnophoridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1889