Triadomegalodon tofanae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriadomegalodonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Triadomegalodon tofanae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
- Dolomia Principale Formation3
- Dolomia stratificata Formation1
- Dachstein Limestone Formation1
- Koessen Formation1
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The named rock units Triadomegalodon tofanae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Triadomegalodon tofanae and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Triadomegalodon tofanae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Neomegalodon4 sites
- Triadomegalodon damesi4 sites
- Dicerocardium2 sites
- Dicerocardium curionii cornutum2 sites
- Rhaetomegalodon2 sites
- Triadomegalodon mojsvari inflatus2 sites
- Triasina hantkeni2 sites
- Ampezzania subovata1 site
- Ampezzania zardinii1 site
- Ampullospira1 site
- Aulotortus1 site
- Callotrochus triadicus1 site
- Choristoceras ammonitiforme1 site
- Choristoceras rhaeticum1 site
- Coelostylina1 site
- Coelostylina conica1 site
- Costatoria1 site
- Dicerocardium curionii curionii1 site
- Entolium discites1 site
- Gervillia inflata1 site
- Griphoporella curvata1 site
- Hungariella1 site
- Hungariella coronata1 site
- Inoperna (Triasoperna) schafhaeutli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Triadomegalodon tofanae, 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- Megalodontidae e Dicerocardiidae del Triassico Superiore di Cortina d'Ampezzo [Megalodontidae and Dicerocardiidae from the Upper Triassic of Cortina d'Ampezzo]4
- Late Triassi Megalodontidae from Northern Calabria (Italy)1
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie1
- Neue Zweischaler und Brachiopoden aus der Bakonyer Trias [New bivalves and brachiopods from the Bakony Trias]1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Triadomegalodon tofanae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Triadomegalodon tofanae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triadomegalodon tofanae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itTriadomegalodon through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoernes 1900)