Triceratium

Triceratium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EupodiscaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Centrales
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Centrales
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Centrales
Environment
marinePBDB, for Centrales

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 47 of 295 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 43 of 295 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 295 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 295 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 137 of 295 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 295 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 295 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 12 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 12 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 12 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 12 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 18 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 46 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 46 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 33 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

295 occurrences of Triceratium on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

295 occurrences

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

8 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WMason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WKanguk — 75.63°N, 119.37°WKanguk — 78.00°N, 103.00°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°W

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The named rock units Triceratium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 195 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triceratium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Triceratium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

502 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 217 sites for Triceratium, 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

30 references

Each of the 295 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. 18 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 content1

Picture of Triceratium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEupodiscaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1839