Thlipsurella

Thlipsurella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThlipsuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 454 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 13 occurrencesDevonian455–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449.5 Mya393.47 Mya455 Mya387 Mya

13 occurrences of Thlipsurella 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

13 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

6 formations

Onondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 40.54°N, 77.70°WOnondaga — 39.26°N, 78.53°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHuangnigang — 28.00°N, 118.00°EPinetop — 34.67°N, 95.83°WLos Espejos — 30.25°S, 68.75°WWee Jasper — 35.06°S, 148.64°E

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The named rock units Thlipsurella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thlipsurella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thlipsurella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Thlipsurella, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 Thlipsurella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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What may have been alongside itThlipsuridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.