Triactinella rigbyi
No picture of Triactinella rigbyi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Triactinella rigbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriactinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Triactinella rigbyi 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Triactinella rigbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triactinella rigbyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Triactinella rigbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Brevicirrus arenaceus1 site
- Microastraeum tenuis1 site
- Microspongia1 site
- Miritubus erinaceus1 site
- Onerosiconcha gregalia1 site
- Ordinisabulo quadragintaforma1 site
- Palaeocallyoides improbabilis1 site
- Polycornua entropus1 site
- Polycornua trescelestus1 site
- Pseudolancicula exigua1 site
- Pyritonema scopula1 site
- Reticulicymbalum tres1 site
- Spissiparies minuta1 site
- Vadosifistula milvus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Triactinella rigbyi, 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
1 reference- Exceptionally well-preserved Middle Ordovician sponges from the Llandegley Rocks Lagerstätte, Wales1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Triactinella rigbyi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Triactinella rigbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triactinella rigbyi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itTriactinella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Botting 2005