Tritoechia lewisi
No picture of Tritoechia lewisi 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 lewisi, 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 484.3 Mya and 473.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tritoechia lewisi 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- 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
- Florentine Valley Formation3
- Florentine Valley Limestone Formation · Junee Group1
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The named rock units Tritoechia lewisi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tritoechia lewisi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tritoechia lewisi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Asaphopsoides florentinensis2 sites
- Tasmanaspis lewisi2 sites
- Acrograptus gracilis1 site
- Asaphellus trinodosus1 site
- Chosenia1 site
- Clonograptus1 site
- Cybelopsis1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Hystricurus robustus1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
- Protopliomerops1 site
- Pseudohystricurus1 site
- Schmidtites1 site
- Scotoharpes lauriei1 site
- Syntrophopsis1 site
- Tetragraptus1 site
- Tritoechia careyi1 site
- Vermes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tritoechia lewisi, 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- Early Ordovician orthide brachiopods from southern Tasmania3
- Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania1
Each 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 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 Tritoechia lewisi 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 lewisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tritoechia lewisi 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 itTritoechia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1948