Triadomegalodon
Searched as Triadomegalodon mojsvari inflatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Triadomegalodon as the accepted name.
No picture of Triadomegalodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Triadomegalodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Triadomegalodon on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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 Triadomegalodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triadomegalodon and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Triadomegalodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Neomegalodon8 sites
- Dicerocardium6 sites
- Neomegalodon boeckhi4 sites
- Atreta intusstriata3 sites
- Calvaentolium hehlii3 sites
- Conchodon infraliasicus3 sites
- Gervillia inflata3 sites
- Pleuromya loeschmanni3 sites
- Rhaetomegalodon3 sites
- Schafhaeutlia3 sites
- Aulotortus2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Costatoria2 sites
- Costatoria whateleyae2 sites
- Dicerocardium curionii cornutum2 sites
- Gemmelarodus2 sites
- Homomya2 sites
- Homomya lariana2 sites
- Isocyprina2 sites
- Isognomon (Isognomon) exilis2 sites
- Laternula2 sites
- Limatula2 sites
- Liostrea2 sites
- Lopha haidingeriana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Triadomegalodon, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Triadomegalodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Triadomegalodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triadomegalodon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMegalodontidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vegh-Neubrandt 1974