Tribrachiatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhomboasteraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 52.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
82 occurrences of Tribrachiatus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
82 occurrences- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eocene84%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene5%
- Pleistocene10%
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.
Tribrachiatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tribrachiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Discoaster68 sites
- Coccolithus pelagicus58 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis56 sites
- Chiasmolithus54 sites
- Toweius44 sites
- Zygrhablithus bijugatus43 sites
- Sphenolithus radians42 sites
- Dinoflagellata38 sites
- Coccolithus29 sites
- Girgisia28 sites
- Reticulofenestra28 sites
- Neococcolithes25 sites
- Sphenolithus23 sites
- Umbilicosphaera20 sites
- Campylosphaera19 sites
- Cyclicargolithus floridanus17 sites
- Calcidiscus16 sites
- Clausicoccus15 sites
- Ellipsolithus14 sites
- Chiphragmalithus12 sites
- Pontosphaera11 sites
- Calcidiscus leptoporus10 sites
- Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus10 sites
- Dictyococcites9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Tribrachiatus, 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
14 references- Site U140318
- Site U151013
- Site U140911
- Site U15148
- Site U15186
- Site U14105
- Site U15084
- Site U14074
- Site U13314
- Site U15092
- Site U15192
- Site U14562
Each of the 82 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content0
No picture of Tribrachiatus 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 Tribrachiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tribrachiatus 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 itRhomboasteraceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shamrai 1963