Tritoechia billingsi
No picture of Tritoechia billingsi 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 billingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tritoechia billingsi 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
5 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 Tritoechia billingsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tritoechia billingsi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tritoechia billingsi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Ahtiella paucirugosa4 sites
- Bimuria4 sites
- Orthambonites4 sites
- Productorthis mainensis4 sites
- Calyptolepta diaphragma3 sites
- Ingria3 sites
- Eodalmanella2 sites
- Palaeoneumania atlanticus2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Plectambonitidae2 sites
- Plectorthis2 sites
- Taffia2 sites
- Virgoria virgensis2 sites
- Acanthorthis terreneuvensis1 site
- Anechophragma rarum1 site
- Antigonambonites1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Fistulogonites novaterrensis1 site
- Glypterina1 site
- Guttasella gutta1 site
- Inversella1 site
- Jaanussonites hornei1 site
- Multispinula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tritoechia billingsi, 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
2 references- Early Ordovician (Late Arenig) brachiopods from Virgin Arm, New World Island, Newfoundland4
- Paleogeographic implications of Ordovician shelly fossils in the Magog belt of the northern Appalachian region1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Tritoechia billingsi 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 billingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tritoechia billingsi 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. Neuman 1968