Tomaculum

No picture of Tomaculum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Tomaculum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnimaliaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 459.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 4 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician639–632 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences632–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–620 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences620–614 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences614–608 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences608–602 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences602–596 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences596–590 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences590–584 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences584–578 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences578–572 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences572–566 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences566–560 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences560–553 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences553–547 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences547–541 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences541–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–481 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences481–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya461 Mya639 Mya456 Mya

6 occurrences of Tomaculum 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

6 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

5 formations

Wulongqing — 24.93°N, 102.82°EXistenta — 41.00°N, 7.00°WLa Bastida Shales — 41.00°N, 6.00°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°WFloyd Church — 35.42°N, 80.33°W

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The named rock units Tomaculum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tomaculum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tomaculum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tomaculum, 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

6 references

Each 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. 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 Tomaculum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Tomaculum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Tomaculum 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 itAnimalia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Groom 1902