Trichichnus simplex
No picture of Trichichnus simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Trichichnus simplex 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. 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
- TrichichnusPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Trichichnus simplex 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Grebes Nest Point Formation · Wabana Group1
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The named rock units Trichichnus simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trichichnus simplex and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trichichnus simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Arthraria antiquata1 site
- Catenichnus contentus1 site
- Cruziana stromnessi1 site
- Didymaulichnus lyelli1 site
- Lingulichnus verticalis1 site
- Lockeia siliquaria1 site
- Monomorphichnus1 site
- Monomorphichnus mulitilineatus1 site
- Palaeophycus sulcatus1 site
- Phycodes circinatum1 site
- Phycodes wabanensis1 site
- Rosselia chonoides1 site
- Rosselia socialis1 site
- Rusophycus1 site
- Rusophycus biloba1 site
- Skolithos1 site
- Skolithos linearis1 site
- Teichichnus flexuosus1 site
- Trichophycus venosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Trichichnus simplex, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Trichichnus simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Trichichnus simplex 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.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Trichichnus simplex 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 itTrichichnus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fillion and Pickerill 1990