Trochomphalus dimidiatus

No picture of Trochomphalus dimidiatus 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 Trochomphalus dimidiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrochomphalusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.5 Mya – 445.2 Mya450.1 Mya442.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Trochomphalus dimidiatus 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

3 occurrences

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

Port Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WÄrina — 59.08°N, 25.13°E

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The named rock units Trochomphalus dimidiatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Trochomphalus dimidiatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Trochomphalus dimidiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trochomphalus dimidiatus, 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

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 Trochomphalus dimidiatus 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 Trochomphalus dimidiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Trochomphalus dimidiatus 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 itTrochomphalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)