Trematotrochus

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurbinoliidaePBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
10 occurrences of Trematotrochus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Trematotrochus 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.
Trematotrochus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trematotrochus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Alveopora polyacantha1 site
- Antiguastrea alveolaris1 site
- Conocyathus cyclocostatus1 site
- Cycloseris mokai1 site
- Cynarina lacrymalis1 site
- Favites pauciseptata1 site
- Idiotrochus australis1 site
- Idiotrochus emarciatus1 site
- Notocyathus viola1 site
- Pavona1 site
- Sphenotrochus wellsi1 site
- Stylophora1 site
- Stylophora depauperata1 site
- Stylophora granulata1 site
- Stylophora pistillata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trematotrochus, 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
6 references- A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae4
- Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 22
- Biosedimentary and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Southern Marion Platform from the Middle to Late Miocene (Northeast Australia, ODP Leg 194, Sites 1196 and 1199)1
- Macropalaeontology of the Trochocyathus-Trematotrochus band (Paleocene/Eocene boundary), Dilwyn Formation, Otway Basin, Victoria1
- Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 31
- Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 11
Each of the 10 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 Trematotrochus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trematotrochus 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 itTurbinoliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. T.-Woods 1879