Tuarangia paparua
No picture of Tuarangia paparua 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 Tuarangia paparua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuarangiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At most 1.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 500.5 Mya and 499 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tuarangia paparua 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Tuarangia paparua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tuarangia paparua and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tuarangia paparua and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Linnarssonia2 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Amictocracens1 site
- Ammagnostus1 site
- Anabolotreta1 site
- Baltagnostus1 site
- Costipelagiella zazvorkai1 site
- Cotalagnostus1 site
- Dolicholeptus ansatus1 site
- Dolichometopus1 site
- Dorispira accordionata1 site
- Dorypyge aff. tenella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Enigmaconus parvus1 site
- Eurekapegma cooperi1 site
- Goniagnostus spiniger1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Hypagnostus brevifrons1 site
- Koptura1 site
- Latouchella orientalis1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Mellopegma simesi1 site
- Micromitra1 site
- Modocia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tuarangia paparua, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tuarangia paparua 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 Tuarangia paparua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tuarangia paparua 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 itTuarangia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacKinnon 1982