Turrilepas

Turrilepas

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurrilepadidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Machaeridia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Machaeridia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Machaeridia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous462–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445.2 Mya330.3 Mya462 Mya321 Mya

10 occurrences of Turrilepas on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

10 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

7 formations

Edwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°ERedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WYarralumla — 35.28°S, 149.13°EHughley Shales — 52.63°N, 2.52°WLoka — 58.57°N, 15.07°EKunlein — 22.93°N, 97.30°E

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The named rock units Turrilepas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turrilepas and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Turrilepas and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

484 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Turrilepas, 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

10 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 Turrilepas

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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 itTurrilepadidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1865