Telephina (Telephina) fracta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Telephina (Telephina)PBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Telephina (Telephina) fracta 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Telephina (Telephina) fracta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Telephina (Telephina) fracta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Telephina (Telephina) fracta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Cyclopyge3 sites
- Cyclospira scanica3 sites
- Hibbertia3 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Arthrorhachis tarda2 sites
- Birmanites latus2 sites
- Christiania nilssoni2 sites
- Dedzetina serpaglii2 sites
- Foliomena folium2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus angelini2 sites
- Jezercia ostiaria2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) fecunda2 sites
- Nankinolithus2 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus2 sites
- Nileus2 sites
- Paraphillipsinella2 sites
- Shumardia2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sphaeragnostus2 sites
- Symphysops2 sites
- Symphysops armatus2 sites
- Ulugtella2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Telephina (Telephina) fracta, 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
3 references- The only known cyclopygid–‘atheloptic’ trilobite fauna from North America: the upper Ordovician fauna of the Pyle Mountain Argillite and its palaeoenvironmental significance1
- Trilobites of the post-Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia. Part I1
- Lithostratigraphic units and biostratigraphy of the post-sardic Ordovician sequence in south-west Sardinia1
Each of the 3 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 Telephina (Telephina) fracta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Telephina (Telephina) fracta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Telephina (Telephina) fracta 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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What may have been alongside itTelephina (Telephina) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1852