Tretaspis kiaeri

No picture of Tretaspis kiaeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tretaspis kiaeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TretaspisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Tretaspis
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451.8 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 33 of 33 occurrencesOrdovician453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 22 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451.8 Mya448.8 Mya453.3 Mya444.7 Mya

33 occurrences of Tretaspis kiaeri 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

33 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

Dufton Shales — 54.72°N, 2.48°WRhiwlas Limestone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°E

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

Tretaspis kiaeri and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tretaspis kiaeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Tretaspis kiaeri, 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

4 references

Each of the 33 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

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No picture of Tretaspis kiaeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tretaspis kiaeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tretaspis kiaeri 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 itTretaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stormer 1930