Trochobolus texatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochobolusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Trochobolus texatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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.
Trochobolus texatus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Trochobolus texatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum8 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata8 sites
- Cypellia rugosa8 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus8 sites
- Cribrospongia7 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa7 sites
- Porospongia marginata7 sites
- Chonellopsis striata6 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum6 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata6 sites
- Dictyonocoelia lineatum6 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri6 sites
- Hyalotragos patella6 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides6 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi6 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua6 sites
- Craticularia parallela5 sites
- Cribrospongia elegans5 sites
- Hexactinosa5 sites
- Lecanella pateraeformis5 sites
- Linonema calyx5 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa5 sites
- Sphenaulax costata5 sites
- Sporadopyle pusilla5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Trochobolus texatus, 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
4 references- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology6
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura2
- Die Schwamm-Biohermfazies der nördlichen Fankenalb (Urspring; Oxford, Malm): Mikrofazies, Palökologie, Paläontologie1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
Each of the 10 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
Media content1
Picture of Trochobolus texatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trochobolus texatus 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 itTrochobolus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1833)