Treptotreta socialis
No picture of Treptotreta socialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Treptotreta socialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TreptotretaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508.2 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Treptotreta socialis 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Treptotreta socialis 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.
Treptotreta socialis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Treptotreta socialis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Acrothele (Redlichella) granulata2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Peronopsis fallax2 sites
- Anomocare laeve1 site
- Baltoparadoxides oelandicus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Dictyonina ornatella1 site
- Hyolithes obesus1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Orthida1 site
- Orthotheca teretiuscula1 site
- Paradoxides pinus1 site
- Parasolenopleura peregrina1 site
- Problematicum indet.1 site
- Protospongia1 site
- Ptychoparia anderseni1 site
- Solenopleura bucculenta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Treptotreta socialis, 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
2 references- A mid-Cambrian shelly fauna from Ritland, western Norway and its palaeogeographical implications1
- Early Middle Cambrian fauna from Rogaland, SW Norway1
Each of the 2 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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No picture of Treptotreta socialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Treptotreta socialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Treptotreta socialis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itTreptotreta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Seebach 1865)