Tryplasma duncanae
No picture of Tryplasma duncanae 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 Tryplasma duncanae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TryplasmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tryplasma duncanae 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tryplasma duncanae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tryplasma duncanae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tryplasma duncanae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Stylopleura berthiaumi4 sites
- Carlinastraea2 sites
- Criteriognathus eurekaensis2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
- Lyrielasma2 sites
- Tonkinaria simpsoni2 sites
- Belodella1 site
- Breviphrentis1 site
- Briantia1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Egosiella1 site
- Neomphyma1 site
- Ptenophyllidae1 site
- Stylopleura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tryplasma duncanae, 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 5 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 Tryplasma duncanae 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 Tryplasma duncanae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tryplasma duncanae 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 itTryplasma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam 1973