Trematis millepunctata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrematisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Trematis millepunctata 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- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Trematis millepunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trematis millepunctata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trematis millepunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Petrocrania scabiosa4 sites
- Pterinea demissa3 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata3 sites
- Zygospira modesta3 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Cyclora2 sites
- Cyrtolites ornatus2 sites
- Flexicalymene meeki2 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis2 sites
- Leptaena richmondensis2 sites
- Orthodesma canaliculatum2 sites
- Paupospira bowdeni2 sites
- Paupospira tropidophora2 sites
- Platystrophia ponderosa2 sites
- Aechmina1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Ambonychia alata1 site
- Amplexopora1 site
- Anomalocrinus1 site
- Anomalodonta1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Archinacella rugatina1 site
- Arthraria biclavata1 site
- Batostoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Trematis millepunctata, 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- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec2
- Taphonomic effects of sea-floor exposure on an Ordovician brachiopod assemblage1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
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. 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 Trematis millepunctata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trematis millepunctata 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 itTrematis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1875