Teratorhynchus

Teratorhynchus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RemopleuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya452 Mya

10 occurrences of Teratorhynchus 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

2 formations

Balclatchie — 55.22°N, 4.85°WBalclatchie — 55.17°N, 4.87°WBalclatchie — 55.31°N, 4.80°WArdwell Farm — 55.25°N, 4.85°WArdwell Farm — 55.22°N, 4.77°W

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The named rock units Teratorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Teratorhynchus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Teratorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Teratorhynchus, 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

2 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. 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 Teratorhynchus

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

No 3D scan of Teratorhynchus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRemopleuridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1903