Trigonocerca typica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigonocercaPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Trigonocerca typica 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
20 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
5 formations
- Fillmore Limestone Formation10
- Garden City Formation6
- Fillmore Formation · Pogonip Group2
- Ninemile Formation1
- Woodward D Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Trigonocerca typica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trigonocerca typica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trigonocerca typica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Lemureops lemurei6 sites
- Pseudocybele altinasuta4 sites
- Ptyocephalus acclivus4 sites
- Dimeropygiella blanda3 sites
- Presbynileus elongatus3 sites
- Protopliomerops3 sites
- Protopliomerops quattuor3 sites
- Acidiphorus2 sites
- Bellerophontina2 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca nevadensis2 sites
- Dimeropygiella2 sites
- Diparelasma2 sites
- Heckethornia alticapitis2 sites
- Ibexaspis brevis2 sites
- Acodus1 site
- Acodus similaris1 site
- Amblycranium1 site
- Amblycranium linearus1 site
- Bathyurellus teretus1 site
- Benthamaspis gibberula1 site
- Bolbocephalus1 site
- Carolinites killaryensis1 site
- Catoraphiceras1 site
- Colaptoconus quadraplicatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Trigonocerca typica, 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
5 references- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea9
- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas5
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah3
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada2
- An Ordovician (Arenigian) trilobite faunule of great diversity from the Ibex area, western Utah1
Each of the 20 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 typica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 typica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trigonocerca typica 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrigonocerca through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951