Trichotropis insignis

Trichotropis insignis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
gray hairysnailPBDB
Sits inside
TrichotropisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Capulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Capulidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Capulidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 118 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

2 occurrences of Trichotropis insignis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2 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

1 formation

Late Pleistocene terrace — 43.12°N, 124.41°W

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The named rock units Trichotropis insignis 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.

Trichotropis insignis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Trichotropis insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Trichotropis insignis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Trichotropis insignis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trichotropis insignis was found in Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Middendorff 1848