Trigonocerca
No picture of Trigonocerca 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 Trigonocerca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
34 occurrences of Trigonocerca 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
34 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- 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
8 formations
- Fillmore Limestone Formation12
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group9
- Garden City Formation6
- Fillmore Formation · Pogonip Group2
- Al Rose Formation2
- Outram Formation1
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The named rock units Trigonocerca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trigonocerca and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trigonocerca and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Lemureops lemurei7 sites
- Pseudocybele altinasuta5 sites
- Dimeropygiella blanda4 sites
- Hesperonomia4 sites
- Ptyocephalus acclivus4 sites
- Acidiphorus3 sites
- Presbynileus elongatus3 sites
- Protopliomerops3 sites
- Protopliomerops quattuor3 sites
- Archaeorthis2 sites
- Bellerophontina2 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca nevadensis2 sites
- Dimeropygiella2 sites
- Dimeropygiella ovata2 sites
- Diparelasma2 sites
- Heckethornia alticapitis2 sites
- Ibexaspis brevis2 sites
- Isoteloides2 sites
- Jeffersonia2 sites
- Peltabellia2 sites
- Pliomeridae2 sites
- Presbynileus2 sites
- Presbynileus ibexensis2 sites
- Ptyocephalus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Trigonocerca, 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
8 references- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea11
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada9
- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas5
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California3
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah3
- Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta)1
- An Ordovician (Arenigian) trilobite faunule of great diversity from the Ibex area, western Utah1
- Stratigraphy of some Paleozoic formations in the Independence quadrangle, Inyo County, California1
Each of the 34 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
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No picture of Trigonocerca 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 Trigonocerca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trigonocerca 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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951