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Tullimonstrum ✝
| Description | Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully Monster, is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilaterian that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago. A single species, T. gregarium, is known. Examples of Tullimonstrum have been found only in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, United States. Its classification has been the subject of controversy, and interpretations of the fossil likened it to molluscs, arthropods, conodonts, worms, and vertebrates. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Rank | genus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Tullimonstrum | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Problematica : Tullimonstrum | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Tullimonstrum Richardson, 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Science, N. Y. 151 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 311 - 307 Ma Carboniferous | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 311 - 307 Ma Carboniferous | ||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. S. Richardson. 1966. Wormlike fossils from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois. Science 151(3706):75-76 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Tullimonstrum gregarium ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1966 | Tullimonstrum Richardson p. 76 figs. Fig. 1-3 |
| 2002 | Tullimonstrum Sepkoski, Jr. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
Will County, Illinois, USA