Triplesia zhejiangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriplesiaPBDB
- 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 most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Triplesia zhejiangensis 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Triplesia zhejiangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triplesia zhejiangensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Triplesia zhejiangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Antizygospira liquanensis7 sites
- Schachriomonia dichotoma6 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis6 sites
- Altaethyrella zhejiangensis5 sites
- Eospirifer praecursor4 sites
- Mimella zhejiangensis4 sites
- Strophomena4 sites
- Deloprosopus jiangshanensis2 sites
- Eospirigerina yulangensis2 sites
- Cornulites1 site
- Ectenoglossa1 site
- Eosotrophina uniplicata1 site
- Foliomena folium1 site
- Holtedahlina sinica1 site
- Kassinella (Kassinella) shiyangensis1 site
- Metambonites meritus1 site
- Oichnus1 site
- Oxoplecia1 site
- Peritrimerella1 site
- Plectoglossa1 site
- Skenidioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Triplesia zhejiangensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China8
- Cornulitid epibionts on brachiopod shells from the Late Ordovician (middle Ashgill) of East China1
Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Triplesia zhejiangensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Triplesia zhejiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triplesia zhejiangensis 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 itTriplesia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liang 1983