Triginglymus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeguminocythereidiniPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Hemicytheridae
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Triginglymus 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Triginglymus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triginglymus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Triginglymus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Cytheretta alexanderi7 sites
- Cytheridea garretti7 sites
- Actinocythereis6 sites
- Clithrocytheridea6 sites
- Cushmanidea6 sites
- Cytheridea grigsbyi6 sites
- Cytheridea montgomeryensis6 sites
- Trachyleberis6 sites
- Acuticythereis5 sites
- Archicythereis5 sites
- Brachycythere watervalleyensis5 sites
- Buntonia shubutaensis5 sites
- Cyamocytheridea5 sites
- Cytheropteron montgomeryensis5 sites
- Henryhowella5 sites
- Hermanites5 sites
- Konarocythere5 sites
- Cytherelloidea4 sites
- Loxoconcha4 sites
- Absonocytheropteron3 sites
- Brachycythere3 sites
- Cytheromorpha3 sites
- Echinocythereis3 sites
- Loxoconcha creolensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Triginglymus, 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
3 references- Jackson Eocene Ostracoda from the Cocoa Sand of Alabama5
- Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas1
- Gosport Eocene Ostracoda from Little Stave Creek, Alabama1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Triginglymus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Triginglymus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeguminocythereidini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.