Timaniella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- SpiriferellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
113 occurrences of Timaniella 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
113 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
24 formations
- Gerster Formation · Park City Group16
- Word Formation15
- Cathedral Mountain Formation10
- Assistance Formation9
- Park City Formation6
- Bone Spring Formation6
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The named rock units Timaniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Timaniella and its relatives
PermianWhere Timaniella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
320 taxa- Hustedia27 sites
- Leptodus26 sites
- Marginifera24 sites
- Peniculauris ivesi20 sites
- Phricodothyris guadalupensis19 sites
- Meekella attenuata18 sites
- Meekella skenoides18 sites
- Composita mira16 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus16 sites
- Stenoscisma venustum16 sites
- Bathymyonia nevadensis14 sites
- Megousia waageniana14 sites
- Richthofenioidea14 sites
- Avonia13 sites
- Bryozoa12 sites
- Echinosteges guadalupensis12 sites
- Anemonaria sublaevis11 sites
- Elivina11 sites
- Hercosia uddeni11 sites
- Liosotella popei11 sites
- Xestosia schucherti11 sites
- Xestotrema pulchrum11 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys10 sites
- Composita subtilita10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Timaniella, 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
16 references- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda60
- The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah16
- Systematic descriptions, paleoecology and correlations of the late Paleozoic subfamily Spiriferellinae (Brachiopoda) from the Yukon Territory and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago8
- Appendix 2: systematic description of new brachiopod species and genera, in Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Northern Yukon Territory, Canada6
- Biostratigraphy of the Phosphoria, Park City, and Shedhorn Formations; Geology of Permian Rocks in the Western Phosphate Field5
- Kalashnikov, 19983
- The environment and history of the Toroweap and Kaibab Formations of northern Arizona and southern Utah3
- Abramov and Grigorieva, 19882
- Late Permian ammonoids in the Inyo Range, California, and their significance2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation2
- Late Permian (Wuchiapingian) brachiopod fauna from Okutadami, central Japan: systematics, palaeobiogeography and tectonic implications1
- The ENS collection: a systematic study of brachiopods from the Lower Permian Vøringen Member, Kapp Starostin Formation, Spitsbergen1
Each of the 113 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. 4 further references are 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 Timaniella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Timaniella 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 itSpiriferellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barchatova 1968