Treptichnus bifurcus

No picture of Treptichnus bifurcus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Treptichnus bifurcus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TreptichnusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 232 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 5 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 5 occurrences642–630 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences630–618 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences618–607 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences607–595 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences595–583 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences583–572 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences572–560 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences560–549 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences549–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–514 Mya — about 3 occurrences315–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences538.8 Mya306 Mya642 Mya292 Mya

5 occurrences of Treptichnus bifurcus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

5 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

3 formations

Pedroche — 37.95°N, 4.77°WStranger — 38.57°N, 95.31°WIngta — 63.34°N, 128.63°W

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The named rock units Treptichnus bifurcus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Treptichnus bifurcus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Treptichnus bifurcus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Treptichnus bifurcus, 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

Each of the 5 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.

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No picture of Treptichnus bifurcus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Treptichnus bifurcus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Treptichnus bifurcus 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 itTreptichnus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1889