Tricolocapsa

No picture of Tricolocapsa 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 Tricolocapsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WilliriedellidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 116 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 79 of 116 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 19 of 116 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 116 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 4 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 5 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 23 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 20 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 11 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 10 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 8 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 4 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182.9 Mya137.05 Mya194 Mya131 Mya

116 occurrences of Tricolocapsa on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

116 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

18 formations

Strubberg — 47.59°N, 12.96°EStrubberg — 47.60°N, 12.92°EStrubberg — 47.80°N, 12.95°EGraham Island — 53.37°N, 132.27°WWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WKalur Chert — 41.83°N, 19.97°EJosephine — 42.00°N, 123.76°WJarropa Radiolarite — 37.57°N, 3.50°WMörnsheim — 48.89°N, 10.99°EPhantom Creek — 53.39°N, 132.27°WFonzaso — 45.88°N, 8.64°ENadan — 23.02°N, 57.11°ELimanangcong — 11.99°N, 120.21°EWai Luli — 10.73°S, 123.03°EGuinlo — 12.10°N, 120.17°ESokolica Radiolarite — 49.25°N, 20.92°EWhiteaves — 53.21°N, 132.06°WGuwayza — 23.27°N, 56.65°ECamarena — 37.57°N, 3.50°W

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The named rock units Tricolocapsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tricolocapsa and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Tricolocapsa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

723 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Tricolocapsa, 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

22 references

Each of the 116 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. 10 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 Tricolocapsa 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 Tricolocapsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tricolocapsa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1881