Tetraplaria turgida
No picture of Tetraplaria turgida 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 Tetraplaria turgida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraplariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Tetraplaria turgida on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Tetraplaria turgida and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tetraplaria turgida and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Beania diademata1 site
- Bifaxaria bryani1 site
- Bifaxaria diaphyota1 site
- Canda fossilis1 site
- Chiastosella1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Discocyclina dispansa1 site
- Figularia1 site
- Halkyardia1 site
- Herpetopora1 site
- Menipea innocua1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Reteporellina1 site
- Spiroporina kondoi1 site
- Tessaradoma bifax1 site
- Tetraplaria simata1 site
- Triporula biarmata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tetraplaria turgida, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Tetraplaria turgida 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 Tetraplaria turgida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetraplaria turgida 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetraplaria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tewari and Srivastava 1967