Tretaspis sortita

Tretaspis sortita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TretaspisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Tretaspis
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 13 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453.3 Mya442.6 Mya

13 occurrences of Tretaspis sortita on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

13 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

Husbergøya — 59.88°N, 10.72°ELangøyene — 59.90°N, 10.72°ELangåra — 59.89°N, 10.53°E

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

Tretaspis sortita and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tretaspis sortita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tretaspis sortita, 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 13 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 Tretaspis sortita

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tretaspis sortita 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 itTretaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1935