Tonopahella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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32 occurrences of Tonopahella 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

32 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

Emigrant — 37.72°N, 117.44°WEmigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WEmigrant — 37.63°N, 117.25°WPioche Shale — 37.89°N, 114.61°WPioche Shale — 37.94°N, 114.48°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.41°N, 114.79°WMount Clark — 64.94°N, 127.26°WMount Clark — 64.48°N, 126.79°WMonola — 37.01°N, 117.79°WMount Cap — 64.48°N, 126.79°W

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The named rock units Tonopahella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tonopahella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tonopahella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Tonopahella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 32 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Tonopahella 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 itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundberg and McCollum 2003