Triptychia

Triptychia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FilholiidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 9.67 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 18 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37.71 Mya11.1 Mya41.7 Mya9 Mya

18 occurrences of Triptychia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

18 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

5 formations

Randeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°E"Caliza de Peguera" — 39.68°N, 2.83°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°W

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The named rock units Triptychia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triptychia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Triptychia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

338 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Triptychia, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 Triptychia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Triptychia 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.

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What may have been alongside itFilholiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger 1876)