Trachypsammia dendroides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrachypsammiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 7.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
3 occurrences of Trachypsammia dendroides on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Trachypsammia dendroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trachypsammia dendroides and its relatives
PermianWhere Trachypsammia dendroides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Timorphyllum wanneri3 sites
- Aricoceras cancellatum2 sites
- Aulohelia irregularis2 sites
- Aulopora timorica2 sites
- Carcinophyllum wichmanni2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Epadrianites beyrichi2 sites
- Gertholites jabiensis2 sites
- Propinacoceras insulcatum2 sites
- Pseudofavosites stylifer2 sites
- Tachylasma beyrichi2 sites
- Tachylasma timorense2 sites
- Timorphyllum variabile2 sites
- Verbeekiella australis2 sites
- Verbeekiella rothpletzi2 sites
- Wannerophyllum cristatum2 sites
- Wannerophyllum tubulosum2 sites
- Agathiceras broweri1 site
- Akmilleria transitoria1 site
- Almites gracilis1 site
- Amplexus arundinaceus1 site
- Amplexus coralloides1 site
- Aricoceras discoidale1 site
- Artinskia timorensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trachypsammia dendroides, 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
2 references- Der palaeontologische Charakter der Anthozoën-fauna des Perm von Timor2
- Les strates du Permian inférieur et la faune corallienne de part et d'autre du Yarlung Zangbo dans la région centre-sud de Tibet1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Trachypsammia dendroides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Trachypsammia dendroides was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrachypsammia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gerth 1922