Triplesia

Triplesia

Dr L. Robin M. Cocks · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Sits inside
TriplesiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 250 occurrencesOrdovician — about 170 of 250 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 80 of 250 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 29 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 17 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 10 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 10 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 16 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 25 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 23 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 22 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 26 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 29 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 19 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 3 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence461.1 Mya432.9 Mya488 Mya425 Mya

250 occurrences of Triplesia 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

250 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

83 formations

Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WMangazea — 63.00°N, 92.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 95.00°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.15°N, 91.43°EJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.40°WDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.56°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDolbor — 62.15°N, 91.43°EFosses — 50.34°N, 5.08°EFosses — 50.40°N, 4.90°EFosses — 50.36°N, 4.60°EXiazhen — 28.63°N, 115.34°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.64°N, 118.36°ETrefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WFombuena — 41.13°N, 1.21°WFombuena — 41.00°N, 1.00°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWaldron Shale — 35.00°N, 88.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WKuanyinchiao — 28.00°N, 108.00°EKuanyinchiao — 28.08°N, 106.86°EKuanyinchiao — 31.00°N, 112.00°ELangåra — 59.86°N, 10.56°ELangåra — 59.84°N, 10.51°ELangåra — 59.89°N, 10.54°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 22.98°EHilliste — 58.79°N, 22.83°ESlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.78°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.79°N, 4.54°WÕhne — 58.36°N, 25.57°EÕhne — 58.14°N, 25.37°EÕhne — 58.28°N, 24.09°EÕhne — 58.00°N, 22.03°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 112.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EChangwu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EChangwu — 28.73°N, 118.60°EChangwu — 28.71°N, 118.51°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EAnderken — 43.92°N, 75.48°EAnderken — 43.98°N, 75.12°ESholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.94°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.55°WGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.36°EGur'yanovka — 51.98°N, 87.13°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EBronydd — 52.12°N, 3.55°W

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The named rock units Triplesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triplesia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Triplesia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,720 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 242 sites for Triplesia, 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

74 references

Each of the 250 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. 62 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 Triplesia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr L. Robin M. Cocks
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTriplesiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1859