Triarthrus canadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriarthrusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Triarthrus canadensis 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
4 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
- Whitby Formation · Nottawasaga Group4
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The named rock units Triarthrus canadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triarthrus canadensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Triarthrus canadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Geisonoceras4 sites
- Leptobolus insignis4 sites
- Climacograptus typicalis3 sites
- Primitiella3 sites
- Spyroceras persculptum3 sites
- Orthoceras transversum2 sites
- Orthograptus quadrimucronatus2 sites
- Triarthrus spinosus2 sites
- Climacograptus1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Ctenodonta peracuta1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Endoceras proteiforme1 site
- Flexicalymene meeki1 site
- Gabriceraurus dentatus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glyptocrinus1 site
- Goniophora1 site
- Heterorthina emacerata1 site
- Homotelus stegops1 site
- Isotelus1 site
- Leptaena moniquensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Triarthrus canadensis, 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 4 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 Triarthrus canadensis 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 Triarthrus canadensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triarthrus canadensis 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 itTriarthrus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1861