Trepospira sphaerulata

Trepospira sphaerulata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrepospiraPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 4 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya303.7 Mya323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Trepospira sphaerulata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 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

3 formations

Graford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WGene Autry Shale — 34.24°N, 96.88°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°W

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The named rock units Trepospira sphaerulata 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.

Trepospira sphaerulata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Trepospira sphaerulata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Trepospira sphaerulata, 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

Each of the 4 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

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Picture of Trepospira sphaerulata

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No 3D scan of Trepospira sphaerulata 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 itTrepospira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)