Testaprica rhodesi
No picture of Testaprica rhodesi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Testaprica rhodesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TestapricaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Testaprica rhodesi 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Testaprica rhodesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Testaprica rhodesi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Testaprica rhodesi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Anomaloglossa1 site
- Anoptambonitidae1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Bactroceras1 site
- Casquella1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Cliefdenella1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Elliptoglossa1 site
- Favistina1 site
- Graptolithina1 site
- Gunningblandella resupinata1 site
- Infurca tessellata1 site
- Kassinella anisa1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Oepikina1 site
- Palaeophyllum1 site
- Paradiscoceras1 site
- Parkesolithus1 site
- Paterula1 site
- Plasmoporella1 site
- Platymena1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Scaphorthis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Testaprica rhodesi, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Testaprica rhodesi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Testaprica rhodesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Testaprica rhodesi 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 itTestaprica through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 2009