Triaphorus zealandicus
No picture of Triaphorus zealandicus 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 Triaphorus zealandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriaphorusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Triaphorus zealandicus 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
3 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
- Ouamoui Formation · Baie de St. Vincent Group2
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The named rock units Triaphorus zealandicus 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.
Triaphorus zealandicus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Triaphorus zealandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Pleurotomaria hectori3 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Maoritrigonia pirouteti2 sites
- Ouamouia grantmackiei2 sites
- Psioidiella parisi2 sites
- Anisocardia parvula1 site
- Anodontophora angulata1 site
- Anodontophora edmondiiformis1 site
- Arcestes1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Discophyllites1 site
- Discophyllites ebneri1 site
- Goniothyris hungarica1 site
- Grypoceras mesodicum1 site
- Halobia hochstetteri1 site
- Halobia neumayri1 site
- Hokonuia limaeformis1 site
- Lima1 site
- Macrodon curionii1 site
- Maoritrigonia otamitensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Triaphorus zealandicus, 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- New records and taxa of Permian and Triassic fossils from New Caledonia and New Zealand2
- The Trias of New Zealand1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Triaphorus zealandicus 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 Triaphorus zealandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triaphorus zealandicus 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 itTriaphorus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trechmann 1917)