Tritonopsis gilletti
No picture of Tritonopsis gilletti 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 Tritonopsis gilletti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TritonopsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tritonopsis gilletti on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tritonopsis gilletti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tritonopsis gilletti and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tritonopsis gilletti and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Anadara (Sectiarca) floridana2 sites
- Astarte claytonrayi2 sites
- Astarte onslowensis2 sites
- Busycon spiniger onslowensis2 sites
- Chione (Chamelea) spada2 sites
- Cunearca silverdalensis2 sites
- Cyclocardia trentensis2 sites
- Dimarzipecten crocus2 sites
- Dinocardium taphrium2 sites
- Donax idoneus2 sites
- Ecphora tampaensis2 sites
- Fusinus hoffmani2 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) acuminata2 sites
- Mercenaria capax2 sites
- Rebeccapecten berryae2 sites
- Sinum imperforatum2 sites
- Siphonochelus (Pilsbrytyphis) siphonifera2 sites
- Stewartia anodonta2 sites
- Tritonopsis biconica2 sites
- Turritella tampae2 sites
- Venericardia nodifera2 sites
- Albertocetus meffordorum1 site
- Amphictis timucua1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tritonopsis gilletti, 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- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America2
- Additions to the Fauna of the Trent Marl of North Carolina1
Each of the 3 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 Tritonopsis gilletti 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 Tritonopsis gilletti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tritonopsis gilletti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTritonopsis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richards 1943)