Triticites

Searched as Triticites schwageriniformis sarykumensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Triticites as the accepted name.

Triticites is a genus of foraminiferan in the family Schwangerinidae. More than four hundred species have been identified.

Triticites

Wilson44691 ( Mark A. Wilson, Department of Geology, The College of Wooster ). · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
TriticitinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At most 5.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299.4 Mya293 Mya

2 occurrences of Triticites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

2 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.

Triticites and its relatives

Permian

Where Triticites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

372 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 339 sites for Triticites, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Triticites

Credit
Wilson44691 ( Mark A. Wilson, Department of Geology, The College of Wooster ).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Triticites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1904