Monotrypella

Monotrypella

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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 229 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 227.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 221 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 13 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic464–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457.2 Mya227.5 Mya464 Mya216 Mya

13 occurrences of Monotrypella 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

13 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

Fossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 148.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiberty — 41.00°N, 86.69°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WNirunda — 63.00°N, 95.00°EChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WManlius — 42.89°N, 74.84°WCoeymans — 42.90°N, 74.90°WMikkwa — 58.39°N, 114.83°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°W

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The named rock units Monotrypella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monotrypella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Monotrypella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

412 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Monotrypella, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Monotrypella

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

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