Trypanostylus

Trypanostylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoelostylinidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 108 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 108 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 49 of 108 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 58 of 108 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 108 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 25 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 15 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 11 occurrences237–234 Mya — about 34 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 8 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences211–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274.4 Mya227.3 Mya285 Mya200 Mya

108 occurrences of Trypanostylus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

108 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

14 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EFődolomit — 46.93°N, 17.40°EFődolomit — 46.97°N, 17.35°EFődolomit — 47.55°N, 18.99°EGuojiashan — 33.90°N, 104.50°EGuojiashan — 33.95°N, 102.95°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.77°WH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EMuschelkalk — 51.45°N, 9.12°EWeiyuanjiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°EHallstatt — 43.84°N, 18.43°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°E

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The named rock units Trypanostylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trypanostylus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Trypanostylus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,594 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Trypanostylus, 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

25 references

Each of the 108 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. 13 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Trypanostylus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoelostylinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1895