Tolmaia lineata
No picture of Tolmaia lineata 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 Tolmaia lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TolmaiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
5 occurrences of Tolmaia lineata 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Tolmaia lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tolmaia lineata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tolmaia lineata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Brachyspirifer2 sites
- Digonus2 sites
- Eoschizodus2 sites
- Goniomorpha2 sites
- Guerangeria2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Petrocrania2 sites
- Platyorthis2 sites
- Rhynchonellida2 sites
- Subcuspidella2 sites
- Toechomya2 sites
- Tropidodiscus2 sites
- Acanthocrinus1 site
- Acastava1 site
- Amlerella dahmeri1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cardiola interrupta1 site
- Carinopsinae <gen. et sp. indet.>1 site
- Carydium sociale1 site
- Cavellina1 site
- Ceramopora1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cornellites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tolmaia lineata, 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
3 references- Beiträge zur Paläontologie des Unterdevons Luxemburgs (4)2
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19882
- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Tolmaia lineata 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 Tolmaia lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tolmaia lineata 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 itTolmaia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1863)