Tropidelasma anthicum
No picture of Tropidelasma anthicum 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 Tropidelasma anthicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropidelasmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Tropidelasma anthicum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Tropidelasma anthicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tropidelasma anthicum and its relatives
PermianWhere Tropidelasma anthicum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
248 taxa- Composita parasulcata11 sites
- Derbyia pannucia11 sites
- Meekella skenoides11 sites
- Spiriferellina hilli11 sites
- Cyclacantharia kingorum10 sites
- Dielasma zebratum10 sites
- Heteralosia hystricula10 sites
- Thedusia procera10 sites
- Xenosteges quadratus10 sites
- Derbyia filosa9 sites
- Echinauris lateralis9 sites
- Rhynchopora palumbula9 sites
- Waagenoconcha magnifica9 sites
- Collemataria elongata8 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata8 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) extensus8 sites
- Echinosteges tuberculatus8 sites
- Liosotella wordensis8 sites
- Metriolepis pulvinata8 sites
- Paraspiriferina laqueata8 sites
- Rhamnaria kingorum8 sites
- Texarina elongata8 sites
- Wellerella girtyi girtyi8 sites
- Allorhynchus permianum wordense7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tropidelasma anthicum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 12 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 Tropidelasma anthicum 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 Tropidelasma anthicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropidelasma anthicum 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 itTropidelasma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1974