Tentaculites exaltatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TentaculitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculites
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculites
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tentaculites
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tentaculita
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tentaculites exaltatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Tabberabbera Formation · Wentworth Group6
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The named rock units Tentaculites exaltatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tentaculites exaltatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tentaculites exaltatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Leptostrophia affinalata6 sites
- Chonetes baragwanathi5 sites
- Cladopora corrigia5 sites
- Fenestella dargoensis5 sites
- Isorthis alpha5 sites
- Ctenodonta placita4 sites
- Loxonema australis4 sites
- Nadiastrophia superba4 sites
- Bassotrochus serpenteus3 sites
- Devonogypa3 sites
- Septalaria longisepta3 sites
- Thamnophyllum3 sites
- Tropidodiscus3 sites
- Actinopteria resplendens2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Cypricardinia crenistria2 sites
- Cypricardinia securigera2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Howellella textilis2 sites
- Lukesispira pulchra2 sites
- Philhedra acutilirata2 sites
- Receptaculitidae2 sites
- Retispira retifera2 sites
- Spirorbis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tentaculites exaltatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tentaculites exaltatus 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 Tentaculites exaltatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tentaculites exaltatus 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 itTentaculites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Talent 1963