Tegulocrea incerta

Searched as Spirifer incertus. The Paleobiology Database treats Tegulocrea incerta as the accepted name.

Tegulocrea incerta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TegulocreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393.47 Mya298.9 Mya402 Mya291 Mya

5 occurrences of Tegulocrea incerta 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

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

3 formations

St. Joe — 36.31°N, 95.03°WShanxiuling — 42.62°N, 129.67°EBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°E

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The named rock units Tegulocrea incerta 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.

Tegulocrea incerta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tegulocrea incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tegulocrea incerta, 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

5 references

Each 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. 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 Tegulocrea incerta

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tegulocrea incerta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTegulocrea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1858)