Trematis
Searched as Trematis rugosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Trematis as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrematidaePBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Trematis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Stonington Formation1
- Big Hill Formation · Richmond Group1
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The named rock units Trematis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trematis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trematis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,088 taxa- Petrocrania28 sites
- Rafinesquina25 sites
- Platystrophia23 sites
- Ambonychia22 sites
- Flexicalymene22 sites
- Isotelus22 sites
- Conularia21 sites
- Ctenodonta19 sites
- Hallopora19 sites
- Modiolopsis17 sites
- Amplexopora16 sites
- Cymatonota16 sites
- Zygospira16 sites
- Cornulites15 sites
- Cyclora15 sites
- Homotrypa15 sites
- Lichenocrinus15 sites
- Nuculites15 sites
- Ostracoda15 sites
- Sinuites15 sites
- Ceramoporella14 sites
- Corynotrypa14 sites
- Lophospira14 sites
- Paucicrura rogata14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Trematis, 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
2 references- A new Lagerstätte from the Late Ordovician Big Hill Formation, Upper Peninsula, Michigan1
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan1
Each of the 2 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
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trematis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrematidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sharpe 1848