Torynechus alectorius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorynechusPBDB
- 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Torynechus alectorius on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Torynechus alectorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Torynechus alectorius and its relatives
PermianWhere Torynechus alectorius and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Glyptosteges intricatus7 sites
- Enteletes4 sites
- Stenoscisma hadrum4 sites
- Chonosteges variabilis3 sites
- Glyptosteges angustus3 sites
- Limbella limbata3 sites
- Meekella hessensis3 sites
- Megousia3 sites
- Phricodothyris3 sites
- Spyridiophora reticulata3 sites
- Acosarina minuta2 sites
- Assimulia (Assimulia) abscessa2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Composita apheles2 sites
- Derbyia2 sites
- Diffingia coita2 sites
- Diffingia divisa2 sites
- Diffingia largifica2 sites
- Geyerella hessi2 sites
- Hercosia uddeni2 sites
- Hustedia2 sites
- Lepidospirifer2 sites
- Oncosarina spinicostata2 sites
- Paraduplophyllum (Vacoea) tubaeformis tubaeformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Torynechus alectorius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Torynechus alectorius 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 Torynechus alectorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Torynechus alectorius 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 itTorynechus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976