Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetrapaurinellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
- Muyinhe Formation1
- Slate Unit Formation · Bayan Har Group1
- Yingshuiquan Formation1
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The named rock units Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Paroertlispongus4 sites
- Paroertlispongus multispinosus4 sites
- Paroertlispongus rarispinosus4 sites
- Paurinella aequispinosa4 sites
- Triassocampe deweveri4 sites
- Eptingium manfredi3 sites
- Nassellaria3 sites
- Paurinella curvata3 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera3 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla3 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera compacta3 sites
- Striatotriassocampe nodosoannulata3 sites
- Tiborella florida3 sites
- Triassocampe3 sites
- Triassocampe scalaris3 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum2 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum liui2 sites
- Astrocentrus pulcher2 sites
- Baratuna2 sites
- Baumgartneria trifurcata2 sites
- Cenosphaera2 sites
- Entactinosphaera2 sites
- Falcispongus falciformis2 sites
- Follicucullus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica, 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
3 references- Middle and Late Triassic radiolarians from northern Tibet: implications for the Bayan Har Basin evolution2
- Middle Triassic radiolarian fauna from southwest Yunnan, China1
- Radiolarian evolution during the Permian and Triassic transition in South and Southwest China1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica 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 Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetrapaurinella tetrahedrica 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.
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What may have been alongside itTetrapaurinella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1994