Tetratomia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigonirhynchiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- 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 393.47 Mya to 390.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
6 occurrences of Tetratomia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Tetratomia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetratomia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tetratomia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
237 taxa- Amissopecten3 sites
- Amoenospirifer3 sites
- Cingulodermis3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Leptochonetes3 sites
- Markitoechia3 sites
- Plectospira3 sites
- Undispirifer3 sites
- Anathyris2 sites
- Areostrophia2 sites
- Astutorhyncha proserpina2 sites
- Bojothyris2 sites
- Carinatina2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Cortezorthis2 sites
- Corvinopugnax2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Goniatitida2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
- Koneprusia2 sites
- Leonaspis hoernesii2 sites
- Leptagonia2 sites
- Lioharpes crassimargo2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tetratomia, 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- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages3
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)1
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
- Devonian Strata in the Central part of the Rhenish Massif (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Tetratomia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tetratomia 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 itTrigonirhynchiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.