Teichichnus rectus
No picture of Teichichnus rectus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Teichichnus rectus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeichichnusPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 506 million years on record.
The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Teichichnus rectus 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian50%
- Ordovician25%
- Pliocene25%
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
2 formations
- Ocieseki Sandstone Formation2
- Beach Formation · Bell Island Group1
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The named rock units Teichichnus rectus 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.
Teichichnus rectus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Teichichnus rectus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Bergaueria1 site
- Conostichus1 site
- Cruziana1 site
- Cruziana billingsi1 site
- Cruziana semiplicata1 site
- Dimorphichnus obliquus1 site
- Diplichnites1 site
- Diplocraterion parallelum1 site
- Helminthopsis abelli1 site
- Palaeophycus heberti1 site
- Planolites terraenovae1 site
- Rusophycus dispar1 site
- Rusophycus latus1 site
- Rusophycus leifeirikssoni1 site
- Skolithos verticalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Teichichnus rectus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Trace fossils in the Lower Cambrian sequence in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, Central Poland2
- Snapshot of a lower Pliocene Dendropoma reef from Sant Onofre (Baix Ebre Basin, Tarragona, NE Spain)1
- Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Teichichnus rectus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Teichichnus rectus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Teichichnus rectus 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 itTeichichnus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seilacher 1955