Triarthrus eatoni

Triarthrus eatoni

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriarthrusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 19 of 19 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 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 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya444.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Triarthrus eatoni 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

19 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

10 formations

Utica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WUtica Shale — 42.99°N, 74.80°WUtica Shale — 43.24°N, 75.26°WKope — 39.03°N, 84.42°WUtica — 42.98°N, 74.82°WUtica — 42.99°N, 74.87°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WNicolet River — 46.00°N, 72.00°WNicolet River — 45.66°N, 72.93°WCollingwood — 46.35°N, 85.52°WDolgeville — 43.00°N, 74.79°WSheguiandah — 45.97°N, 81.93°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WPointe-Bleue Shale — 48.65°N, 71.22°W

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The named rock units Triarthrus eatoni 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.

Triarthrus eatoni and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Triarthrus eatoni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Triarthrus eatoni, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content2

Picture of Triarthrus eatoni

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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 itTriarthrus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1838)