Monotrypa

Monotrypa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmplexoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 309 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 49 of 85 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 18 of 85 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 85 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 85 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 85 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 85 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 85 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 85 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 85 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 85 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 85 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 85 occurrences478–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–455 Mya — about 12 occurrences455–444 Mya — about 35 occurrences444–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences432–421 Mya — about 13 occurrences421–410 Mya — about 5 occurrences273–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–228 Mya — about 5 occurrences228–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences458.2 Mya149.2 Mya478 Mya137 Mya

85 occurrences of Monotrypa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

85 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

39 formations

Zahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.63°WKhabt-el-Hajar — 31.42°N, 4.10°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WHolston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.69°WRusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°ELenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.56°N, 78.98°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°ECummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.45°WIrondequoit — 43.12°N, 79.07°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WQuimbys Mill — 42.50°N, 91.25°WFranopol' — 52.00°N, 24.00°EHenglunshan — 41.95°N, 101.05°EYaomoshan — 40.00°N, 99.00°ELindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°W

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The named rock units Monotrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monotrypa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Monotrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,095 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Monotrypa, 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

39 references

Each of the 85 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. 27 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 Monotrypa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Monotrypa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1879