Tonkinella

No picture of Tonkinella 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 Tonkinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OryctocephalinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Oryctocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 53 of 53 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 53 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 13 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 19 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 12 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506.5 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

53 occurrences of Tonkinella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

53 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

19 formations

Trailer — 39.88°N, 113.05°WPole Canyon — 38.83°N, 114.33°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°ESwasey Limestone — 39.54°N, 112.92°WLincoln Peak — 38.83°N, 114.33°WAlojamiento — 32.22°S, 69.08°WAlojamiento — 32.07°S, 69.08°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WWolsey Shale — 45.76°N, 111.75°WKuonamka — 68.50°N, 112.43°ESwasey/Wheeler Shale — 39.22°N, 113.45°WOville — 43.00°N, 5.00°WValdemiedes — 41.17°N, 1.48°WHsuchuang — 34.63°N, 112.97°EEmigrant — 37.35°N, 117.83°WCathedral — 51.42°N, 116.45°WOgnensk — 50.35°N, 106.45°EEl Gavilán — 28.92°N, 109.29°W

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The named rock units Tonkinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tonkinella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tonkinella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tonkinella, 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

Each of the 53 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 content0

No picture of Tonkinella 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 Tonkinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tonkinella 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 itOryctocephalinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansuy 1916