Tritoechia alta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TritoechiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tritoechia alta 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian3%
- Ordovician97%
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
4 formations
- Fillmore Formation · Lower Pogonip Group1
- Outram Formation1
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Tritoechia alta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tritoechia alta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tritoechia alta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Syntrophopsis obscura2 sites
- Adelograptus antiquus1 site
- Drepanoistodus deltifer1 site
- Hesperonomia1 site
- Hesperonomia crassa1 site
- Hesperonomia planidorsalis1 site
- Hesperotrophia obscura1 site
- Hintzeia celsaora1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Ophioxenikos langenheimi1 site
- Siphonotreta1 site
- Syntrophopsis1 site
- Taffia westgatei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tritoechia alta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tritoechia alta 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 Tritoechia alta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tritoechia alta 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 itTritoechia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1938