Tetravirga perforata

No picture of Tetravirga perforata 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 Tetravirga perforata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetravirgaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences323.4 Mya237 Mya361 Mya231 Mya

3 occurrences of Tetravirga perforata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

3 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

Cassian — 46.60°N, 12.26°E

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The named rock units Tetravirga perforata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetravirga perforata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tetravirga perforata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tetravirga perforata, 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

Each of the 3 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

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No picture of Tetravirga perforata 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 Tetravirga perforata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetravirga perforata 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 itTetravirga through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mostler 1968