Tryplasma fascicularium
No picture of Tryplasma fascicularium 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 fascicularium, 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.
12 occurrences of Tryplasma fascicularium 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
12 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
- Coeymans Formation · Helderberg Group12
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The named rock units Tryplasma fascicularium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tryplasma fascicularium and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tryplasma fascicularium and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Pseudoblothrophyllum helderbergium9 sites
- Siphonophretis variabilis8 sites
- Briantelasma americanum5 sites
- Pseudoblothrophyllum munnsvillium5 sites
- Briantelasma knoxboroense3 sites
- Aknisophyllum consuitum1 site
- Fletcherina incognita1 site
- Pseudoblothrophyllum arrectum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tryplasma fascicularium, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tryplasma fascicularium 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 fascicularium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tryplasma fascicularium 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. Oliver 1960