Tetractinella trigonella

Tetractinella trigonella

BerndH · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetractinellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 71 of 71 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 71 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 8 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 12 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 12 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244.4 Mya241.464 Mya247.5 Mya236.5 Mya

71 occurrences of Tetractinella trigonella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

71 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

13 formations

Felsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EFelsõörs — 47.01°N, 17.93°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°EEsino — 45.91°N, 9.69°EKarchowice — 50.00°N, 19.00°EZuhánya Limestone — 46.11°N, 18.22°EZuhánya Limestone — 46.11°N, 18.00°EVászoly — 47.07°N, 17.97°EMuschelkalk — 50.51°N, 18.34°EMuschelkalk — 50.46°N, 18.17°EWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°EPrezzo Limestone — 45.82°N, 10.47°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°Ebrachiopod-limestone — 45.70°N, 11.22°ENazarkardeh — 36.00°N, 60.85°ERecoaro — 44.17°N, 18.46°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°E

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The named rock units Tetractinella trigonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetractinella trigonella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Tetractinella trigonella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Tetractinella trigonella, 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

25 references

Each of the 71 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. 13 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 Tetractinella trigonella

Credit
BerndH
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Schlotheim 1820)