Tuvaelites

No picture of Tuvaelites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tuvaelites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlveolitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 15 occurrencesSilurian — about 15 of 15 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 15 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya422.7 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Tuvaelites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

15 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

12 formations

Goloskov Subsuite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EGrinchuk Subsuite — 48.50°N, 26.62°ETrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EDashtygoi Beds — 51.00°N, 94.00°EBateaobao — 42.00°N, 110.00°EXibiehe — 42.00°N, 110.00°EChokusin — 47.00°N, 93.00°EFourmanivka Suite — 48.60°N, 26.77°EDashtygoi — 51.25°N, 93.83°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°ESükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Tuvaelites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tuvaelites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tuvaelites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tuvaelites, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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

Media content0

No picture of Tuvaelites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Tuvaelites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tuvaelites 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAlveolitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chekhovich 1971