Triceratina

No picture of Triceratina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Triceratina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BythocytheridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 182.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 11 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 11 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–377 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–200 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 5 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382.31 Mya182.9 Mya392 Mya170 Mya

11 occurrences of Triceratina on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

11 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

4 formations

Beacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WKössen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EFelsõörs — 47.01°N, 17.93°E

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

Triceratina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Triceratina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Triceratina, 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 11 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 content0

No picture of Triceratina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Triceratina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Triceratina 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 itBythocytheridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.