Tumuliolynthus

Tumuliolynthus

Debrenne, Françoise · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TumuliolynthidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 125 of 125 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 2 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 11 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 19 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 19 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 19 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 18 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 10 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 10 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 10 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 4 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya516 Mya539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

125 occurrences of Tumuliolynthus 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

125 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

14 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 61.03°N, 126.13°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EUpper Monok — 52.25°N, 89.03°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.43°EUpper Monok — 52.40°N, 89.07°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°ESalaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°EUst'kundat — 56.00°N, 88.00°EKotuy — 68.53°N, 105.23°EKotuy — 68.68°N, 105.03°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°ETorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EBayan Kol — 51.58°N, 93.60°EPedroche — 37.92°N, 4.82°WKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EFitzroy Tillite — 51.50°S, 60.14°WOi-Muran Reef Massif — 61.07°N, 126.18°E

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The named rock units Tumuliolynthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tumuliolynthus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tumuliolynthus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Tumuliolynthus, 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 125 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. 2 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 Tumuliolynthus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Debrenne, Françoise
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tumuliolynthus 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 itTumuliolynthidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhuravleva 1963