Trinucleoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DionididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Dionididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 454 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Trinucleoides on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Trinucleoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trinucleoides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trinucleoides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Conchoprimitia2 sites
- Trinodus2 sites
- Actinochilina1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Ancistroceras1 site
- Archaeocystites1 site
- Archaeolimulus sp.1 site
- Archegocystites sp.1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Areiaspis1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Babinka1 site
- Bactroceras1 site
- Bactrotheca1 site
- Balanocystites1 site
- Bathmoceras1 site
- Bathycheilus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bohemilla1 site
- Bohemopyge1 site
- Bronteopsis1 site
- Cerninella1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Clisospira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trinucleoides, 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- Chlupáč et al., 19981
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China1
- The Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of Kinnekulle and northern Billingen, Vastergotland1
Each of the 3 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 Trinucleoides
- 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 Trinucleoides 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 itDionididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1917