Toernquistia

Toernquistia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimeropygidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dimeropygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 25 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457.2 Mya – 452.8 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

25 occurrences of Toernquistia 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

25 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

10 formations

Las Aguaditas — 30.33°S, 68.80°WLas Aguaditas — 30.40°S, 68.90°WBalclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°WBalclatchie — 54.84°N, 4.05°WHarding — 38.00°N, 105.00°WDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WCaesar Canyon Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WSaturday Mountain — 44.28°N, 114.50°WMalongulli — 33.00°S, 148.00°ELindero — 35.20°S, 68.23°WYaomoshan — 40.00°N, 99.00°ESuperstes Mudstone — 55.13°N, 4.92°W

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The named rock units Toernquistia 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.

Toernquistia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Toernquistia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Toernquistia, 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 25 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 Toernquistia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itDimeropygidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1896