Torquirhynchia

Torquirhynchia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclothyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 21 of 48 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 27 of 48 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–144 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.2 Mya145.06 Mya171.5 Mya142.5 Mya

48 occurrences of Torquirhynchia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

48 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

16 formations

Kimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.35°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.80°N, 2.28°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.33°WMozduran — 36.12°N, 60.58°ERingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.60°N, 2.45°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EDiceras-Kalk — 54.31°N, 12.49°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°ETuwaiq Mountain — 26.36°N, 44.80°EHanifa — 24.27°N, 46.55°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EBedded Virieu Limestone — 45.76°N, 5.64°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ECaleta Lígate — 20.13°S, 70.02°WNusplinger Plattenkalk — 48.13°N, 8.88°E

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The named rock units Torquirhynchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Torquirhynchia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Torquirhynchia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

519 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Torquirhynchia, 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

22 references

Each of the 48 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Torquirhynchia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Torquirhynchia 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 itCyclothyridinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Childs 1969