Tetraodontella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrorudiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 457.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Tetraodontella 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
7 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Tetraodontella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetraodontella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tetraodontella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Ampyx2 sites
- Conchoprimitia2 sites
- Didymograptus2 sites
- Echinosphaerites2 sites
- Euprimites2 sites
- Glyptograptus2 sites
- Hanchungolithus2 sites
- Heliocrinites2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Isoteloides2 sites
- Nicolella2 sites
- Onniella2 sites
- Orthis2 sites
- Panderia2 sites
- Phyllograptus2 sites
- Platybolbina2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Sigmobolbina2 sites
- Steusloffia2 sites
- Tallinnella2 sites
- Uhakiella2 sites
- Actinomena1 site
- Actinopeltis1 site
- Anisopleurella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tetraodontella, 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
4 references- Swedish Late Ordovician marine benthic assemblages and their bearing on brachiopod biogeography3
- Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Sichuan part2
- Regional stratigraphic table of Northwest China, Shanxi Province Part1
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tetraodontella 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 Tetraodontella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetraodontella 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 itGrorudiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.