Tretocycloecia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TretocycloeciidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 97 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
5 occurrences of Tretocycloecia 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous20%
- Eocene20%
- Miocene60%
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
2 formations
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Tretocycloecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tretocycloecia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tretocycloecia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Adeonellopsis3 sites
- Alderina3 sites
- Crisia3 sites
- Escharella3 sites
- Escharoides3 sites
- Hornera3 sites
- Pleuronea3 sites
- Polyascosoecia3 sites
- Adeonella polystomella2 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa2 sites
- Cellepora2 sites
- Diaperoecia2 sites
- Disporella2 sites
- Herentia2 sites
- Heteropora2 sites
- Hornera frondiculata2 sites
- Iodictyum2 sites
- Mecynoecia2 sites
- Metrarabdotos2 sites
- Myriapora truncata2 sites
- Oncousoecia2 sites
- Onychocella angulosa2 sites
- Porella2 sites
- Proboscina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tretocycloecia, 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
4 references- A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history2
- Korallen und Bryozoen aus der bayerischen Molasse [Corals and Bryozoa from the Bavarian Molasse]1
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa1
Each of the 5 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 Tretocycloecia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTretocycloeciidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu 1910