Tropidodiscus foliatus
No picture of Tropidodiscus foliatus 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 Tropidodiscus foliatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropidodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tropidodiscus foliatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Tropidodiscus foliatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tropidodiscus foliatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tropidodiscus foliatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Kitikamispira ukalundensis2 sites
- Eunema1 site
- Hornyzyga camilleriae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tropidodiscus foliatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Tropidodiscus foliatus 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 Tropidodiscus foliatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropidodiscus foliatus 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 itTropidodiscus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cook 1995