Trinacria

Trinacria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BacillariophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 183 of 538 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 46 of 538 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 32 of 538 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 538 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 198 of 538 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 538 occurrencesPleistocene — about 42 of 538 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 35 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 35 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 35 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 31 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 28 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 19 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 15 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 14 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 24 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 27 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 30 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 45 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 51 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 38 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 48 occurrences89.8 Mya2.58 Mya96 Mya0 Mya

538 occurrences of Trinacria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

538 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

34 formations

Mason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.64°WLadd — 33.77°N, 117.66°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.52°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WKanguk — 75.63°N, 119.37°WKanguk — 79.00°N, 85.37°WKanguk — 78.00°N, 103.00°WSmoking Hills — 69.46°N, 126.97°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WWilliams — 33.78°N, 117.66°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WTainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°EChatsworth — 34.22°N, 118.67°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°W

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The named rock units Trinacria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 263 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trinacria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trinacria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,902 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 386 sites for Trinacria, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

40 references

Each of the 538 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Trinacria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Trinacria 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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What may have been alongside itBacillariophyceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heiberg 1863