Tetraplaria

Tetraplaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetraplariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 10 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41.03 Mya1.8 Mya49 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Tetraplaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

8 formations

Crystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WWilliston Limestone — 29.77°N, 82.87°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°E

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The named rock units Tetraplaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetraplaria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tetraplaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Tetraplaria, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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. 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 Tetraplaria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tetraplaria 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 itTetraplariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tenison-Woods 1879