Tropidelasma furcillatum
No picture of Tropidelasma furcillatum 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 Tropidelasma furcillatum, 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 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tropidelasma furcillatum 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tropidelasma furcillatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tropidelasma furcillatum and its relatives
PermianWhere Tropidelasma furcillatum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Echinosteges tuberculatus4 sites
- Tautosia transenna4 sites
- Cartorhium retusum3 sites
- Cassianoides kingorum3 sites
- Composita enormis3 sites
- Composita parasulcata3 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata3 sites
- Delaria granti3 sites
- Derbyia filosa3 sites
- Derbyia pannucia3 sites
- Derbyia texta3 sites
- Dielasma pictile3 sites
- Dyoros (Tetragonetes) auriculatus3 sites
- Echinauris productelloides3 sites
- Eolyttonia progressa3 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus3 sites
- Heteralosia magnispina3 sites
- Heterelasma concavum3 sites
- Hustedia citeria3 sites
- Hustedia hapala3 sites
- Hustedia tomea3 sites
- Liosotella wordensis3 sites
- Meekella skenoides3 sites
- Metriolepis exserta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tropidelasma furcillatum, 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- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI3
- Permian brachiopods from Chiapas, Mexico: new stratigraphical and paleobiogeographical insights1
Each of the 4 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 furcillatum 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 Tropidelasma furcillatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropidelasma furcillatum 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