Amphiblestrum trifolium

Amphiblestrum trifolium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiblestrumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.9 Mya5.333 Mya19.2 Mya2.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Amphiblestrum trifolium on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

1 formation

Mt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°E

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The named rock units Amphiblestrum trifolium 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.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amphiblestrum trifolium, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Amphiblestrum trifolium

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

No 3D scan of Amphiblestrum trifolium 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAmphiblestrum through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1844)