Trigonotretidae
Trigonotretidae is an extinct family of articulate brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 104 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
2,482 occurrences of Trigonotretidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2,482 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferous19%
- Permian81%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
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
340 formations
- Wargal Formation111
- Cathedral Mountain Formation96
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group88
- Amb Formation73
- Buffel Formation71
- Callytharra Formation62
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The named rock units Trigonotretidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 316 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 249 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trigonotretidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Trigonotretidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
368 taxa- Neospirifer dunbari160 sites
- Composita subtilita108 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer96 sites
- Neospirifer67 sites
- Hustedia mormoni64 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis57 sites
- Crinoidea50 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis50 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis49 sites
- Derbyia48 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis44 sites
- Crurithyris expansa34 sites
- Linipalus magnispinus34 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus34 sites
- Derbyia crassa31 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis31 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa29 sites
- Linoproductus29 sites
- Trepostomata27 sites
- Fusulinidae26 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina25 sites
- Crurithyris24 sites
- Meekella23 sites
- Wellerella osagensis23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,668 sites for Trigonotretidae, and this reads 240 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
313 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI274
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range211
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas119
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia78
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas68
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda62
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal60
- Neospirifer and Trigonotreta (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Western Australia56
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri46
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University40
- Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia38
- Fusispirifer (Spiriferidae, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Australia and Afghanistan37
Each of the 2,482 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. 301 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 Trigonotretidae
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- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trigonotretidae 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.
The description on this site
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpiriferoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1893