Treptichnus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 425 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 20 of 44 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 44 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 44 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 44 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 44 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 44 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrences646–627 Mya — about 1 occurrence627–609 Mya — about 3 occurrences609–590 Mya — about 3 occurrences590–572 Mya — about 3 occurrences572–553 Mya — about 3 occurrences553–535 Mya — about 6 occurrences535–516 Mya — about 13 occurrences516–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–479 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences479–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–220 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences220–201 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences538.8 Mya113.2 Mya646 Mya90 Mya

44 occurrences of Treptichnus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

44 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

24 formations

Nomtsas — 22.00°S, 17.00°ENomtsas — 27.42°S, 16.43°ENomtsas — 27.27°S, 17.64°ENomtsas — 25.60°S, 16.97°EPedroche — 37.95°N, 4.77°WPusa Shale — 39.57°N, 3.88°WPusa Shale — 39.67°N, 5.03°WDeep Spring — 37.35°N, 117.32°WIngta — 63.34°N, 128.63°WStranger — 38.57°N, 95.31°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WPottsville — 33.94°N, 87.22°WOcieseki Sandstone — 50.90°N, 20.90°EStáhpogieddi — 70.58°N, 28.08°EBreivik — 70.90°N, 28.67°EUratanna — 30.45°S, 138.50°ELagarcito — 32.50°S, 66.99°WPuerto Blanco — 30.12°N, 111.98°WWulongqing — 24.93°N, 102.82°EDhaulagiri — 30.34°N, 78.16°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EKellys Island — 47.54°N, 53.01°WNugget Sandstone — 40.76°N, 108.89°WWood Canyon — 36.40°N, 116.10°WCerro de Las Cabras — 32.37°S, 68.95°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WUrusis — 27.70°S, 17.02°EEstenilla — 39.67°N, 5.03°WCíjara — 39.67°N, 5.03°W

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The named rock units Treptichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Treptichnus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Treptichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Treptichnus, 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

29 references

Each of the 44 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Treptichnus

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3D model

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Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1889