Telephina

Telephina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TelephinidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 135 of 135 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 135 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–469 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 13 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 15 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 17 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 14 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470.3 Mya448.8 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

135 occurrences of Telephina 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

135 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

44 formations

Elnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 59.90°N, 10.68°EElnes — 59.88°N, 10.61°EElnes — 59.79°N, 10.50°EElnes — 60.75°N, 11.02°EElnes — 60.74°N, 10.97°EElnes — 60.77°N, 10.85°EElnes — 60.87°N, 10.81°EElnes — 62.00°N, 9.37°EElnes — 60.36°N, 10.55°EElnes — 60.13°N, 10.28°EElnes — 60.58°N, 10.72°ETable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 48.58°N, 58.70°WTable Cove — 50.24°N, 57.59°WSaergan — 40.64°N, 79.50°EBaota — 33.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 109.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EVollen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVollen — 59.81°N, 10.49°EVollen — 59.90°N, 10.63°EVollen — 59.90°N, 10.67°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 118.00°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°ETangtou — 32.07°N, 119.26°ESolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.17°EDomusnovas — 40.34°N, 8.69°EDomusnovas — 39.33°N, 8.67°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°ELinxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°EJianchaogou — 29.00°N, 107.00°EJianchaogou — 33.00°N, 106.00°ELenshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°EHuangnigang — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHuangnigang — 29.00°N, 119.00°ECheDao — 36.00°N, 107.00°ECheDao — 36.08°N, 106.75°ESuperstes Mudstone — 55.13°N, 4.92°WFjäcka Shale — 60.91°N, 15.02°EFjäcka Shale — 61.19°N, 14.87°EShihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°EHuk & Elnes — 60.84°N, 11.01°EBalclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°WMayatas — 52.46°N, 71.55°EKopkurgan — 44.82°N, 74.03°EKopkurgan — 44.95°N, 73.78°EAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WLough Shee Mudrocks — 54.00°N, 9.00°W

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The named rock units Telephina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Telephina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Telephina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

784 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Telephina, 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

48 references

Each of the 135 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 Telephina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek 1952