Trepospira

Trepospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GosseletininaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 160 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 160 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 153 of 160 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 160 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 160 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 4 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 4 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 57 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 70 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 12 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya442 Mya248 Mya

160 occurrences of Trepospira 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

160 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

42 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.02°WAllegheny — 40.35°N, 81.12°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WFort Scott Limestone — 40.82°N, 89.78°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.22°N, 95.35°WFort Scott Limestone — 35.79°N, 95.86°WLost Branch — 37.16°N, 95.46°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WKrebs — 37.83°N, 94.49°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WAltamont — 36.12°N, 95.85°WShale Hill — 39.80°N, 93.55°WShale Hill — 34.96°N, 96.52°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.90°WStanton — 37.13°N, 95.81°WStanton — 37.04°N, 95.82°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.45°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WCaddo Creek — 33.24°N, 98.08°WCaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.03°WWetumka — 35.09°N, 96.27°WBaird — 40.94°N, 122.27°WPawnee — 35.02°N, 96.38°WExline Limestone — 39.00°N, 93.95°WSwope — 39.76°N, 93.80°W

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The named rock units Trepospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trepospira and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Trepospira and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Trepospira, 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

35 references

Each of the 160 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. 23 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 content2

Picture of Trepospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGosseletininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)