Triplasia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellammininaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 52 million years on record.
The record covers at least 159 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Triplasia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Triplasia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Triplasia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Triplasia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Ammobaculites6 sites
- Frondicularia5 sites
- Lenticulina5 sites
- Citharina4 sites
- Epistomina4 sites
- Cytherelloidea3 sites
- Haplophragmium3 sites
- Hechticythere hechti3 sites
- Lagena3 sites
- Protocythere3 sites
- Tristix3 sites
- Vaginulina3 sites
- Ammodiscus2 sites
- Astacolus2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Bullopora2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
- Cythereis2 sites
- Dolocytheridea2 sites
- Dorothia2 sites
- Gaudryina2 sites
- Haplophragmoides2 sites
- Lenticulina (Planularia)2 sites
- Lenticulina munsteri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Triplasia, 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
6 references- Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus3
- Lower Aptian agglutinated foraminifera from the Southern Dobrogea and SE part of the Moesian Platform1
- Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW)1
- Les ostracodes de l'Albien du Koudiat el Beida (J. Mrhila, Tunisie centrale)1
- Le Crétacé inférieur de l'arc subalpin de Castellane entre l'Asse et le Var: Stratigraphy et Sédimentologie1
- Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. IV. Die Ophiuren aus dem Renggeri-Ton (Unter-Oxford) von Chapois (Jura) und Longecombe (Ain)1
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Triplasia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Triplasia 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 itFlabellammininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854