Trematospira

Trematospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhynchospirinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 56 occurrencesSilurian — about 20 of 56 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 36 of 56 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 6 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 5 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences432.9 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

56 occurrences of Trematospira on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

56 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

26 formations

Ludlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 77.36°WRochester Shale — 43.16°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WMcColley Canyon — 40.13°N, 116.10°WMcColley Canyon — 40.16°N, 116.06°WMcColley Canyon — 39.93°N, 116.30°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WJaycox — 42.76°N, 76.97°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.14°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 76.00°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WRabbit Hill Limestone — 39.20°N, 116.42°WLockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.61°N, 117.36°WCoeymans Limestone — 44.33°N, 74.17°WKalkberg Limestone — 44.33°N, 74.17°WNew Scotland — 42.33°N, 74.17°WEsopus — 42.33°N, 74.17°WKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°W

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The named rock units Trematospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trematospira and its relatives

Devonian

Where Trematospira and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Trematospira, 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

18 references

Each of the 56 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Trematospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trematospira 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 itRhynchospirinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.