Trochonema retrorsum
No picture of Trochonema retrorsum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Trochonema retrorsum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochonemaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Trochonema retrorsum 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
11 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
8 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group3
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- Platteville Formation1
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Spechts Ferry Formation1
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The named rock units Trochonema retrorsum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trochonema retrorsum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trochonema retrorsum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Clathrospira conica10 sites
- Clathrospira subconica10 sites
- Cyclonema textilis10 sites
- Cyclonema varicosum10 sites
- Fusispira spicula10 sites
- Gyronema pulchellum10 sites
- Gyronema semicarinatum10 sites
- Helcionopsis depressum10 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis10 sites
- Liospira angustata10 sites
- Liospira vitruvia10 sites
- Loxobucania emmonsi10 sites
- Paraliospira abrupta10 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata10 sites
- Salpingostoma buelli10 sites
- Scalites peracutum10 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta10 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata10 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata10 sites
- Aristerella9 sites
- Carinaropsis minima9 sites
- Ctenodonta9 sites
- Cyrtodonta9 sites
- Cyrtodontula9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Trochonema retrorsum, 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- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota10
- Upper Ordovician Gastropoda from west-central Alaska1
Each of the 11 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 Trochonema retrorsum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Trochonema retrorsum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochonema retrorsum 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 itTrochonema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897