Triopsidae

Triopsidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Tadpole shrimpPBDB
Sits inside
NotostracaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda

Time the record covers

At least 312 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 6 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence315.2 Mya2.58 Mya330 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Triopsidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 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

3 formations

Ukureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°EPradineaux — 43.51°N, 6.63°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.37°N, 7.18°E

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The named rock units Triopsidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triopsidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Triopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Triopsidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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. 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 Triopsidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Triopsidae 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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What may have been alongside itNotostraca through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keilhack 1909