Trachysoma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlypheidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glypheidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 8 of 17 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence192.9 Mya106.3 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

17 occurrences of Trachysoma on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

17 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

7 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WOxford Clay — 52.33°N, 0.09°WNeptune Glacier — 73.38°S, 61.88°WOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°ELower Lias — 52.17°N, 1.79°WTerrain à Chailles — 47.65°N, 6.28°ESpartan Glacier — 71.59°S, 68.73°W

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The named rock units Trachysoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trachysoma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Trachysoma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Trachysoma, 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

8 references

Each of the 17 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Trachysoma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itGlypheidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1858