Tetraphalerella musculosa

No picture of Tetraphalerella musculosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tetraphalerella musculosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetraphalerellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 453.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.8 Mya453.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Tetraphalerella musculosa 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

4 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

1 formation

Lexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.85°W

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

Tetraphalerella musculosa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tetraphalerella musculosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tetraphalerella musculosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

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 Tetraphalerella musculosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tetraphalerella musculosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetraphalerella musculosa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itTetraphalerella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fenton 1928)