Tetraplaria australis
No picture of Tetraplaria australis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tetraplaria australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraplariaPBDB
- 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 most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Tetraplaria australis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Tetraplaria australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetraplaria australis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tetraplaria australis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Cellaria contigua7 sites
- Smittinella tatei6 sites
- Ogiva concamerata5 sites
- Biflustra regularis4 sites
- Cellaria australis4 sites
- Didymosella larvalis4 sites
- Discopora vultur4 sites
- Hincksina geminata4 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius4 sites
- Trigonopora vermicularis4 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica3 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis3 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei3 sites
- Biflustra delta3 sites
- Cellaria bicornis3 sites
- Crateropora patula3 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata3 sites
- Ellisina gregsoni3 sites
- Escharella elongata3 sites
- Escharoides duplicata3 sites
- Foveolaria curdiensis3 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi3 sites
- Gigantopora tuberculosa3 sites
- Glenelgia crawfordensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tetraplaria australis, 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 7 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
Media content0
No picture of Tetraplaria australis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tetraplaria australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetraplaria australis 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 itTetraplaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tenison-Woods 1879