Tintinnida

Tintinnids are ciliates of the choreotrich order Tintinnida, the name deriving from a Latin source meaning a small tinkling bell. They are distinguished by vase-shaped shells called loricae, which are mostly protein but may incorporate minute pieces of minerals.

Tintinnida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirotricheaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 281 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 27 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 27 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–274 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences274–264 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences264–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–244 Mya — about 6 occurrences244–234 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences283.3 Mya1.8 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Tintinnida on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

27 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

7 formations

Arqov — 31.60°N, 34.70°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.58°EYamin - Zafir — 31.67°N, 34.58°EKingscourt Sandstone — 53.90°N, 6.79°WYamin — 31.67°N, 34.83°EYamin — 31.60°N, 34.70°ERa'af — 31.67°N, 34.58°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.75°W

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The named rock units Tintinnida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tintinnida and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tintinnida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tintinnida, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Tintinnida

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tintinnida 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itSpirotrichea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Corliss 1955