Triplicitella australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriplicitellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Triplicitella australis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Triplicitella australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triplicitella australis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Triplicitella australis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Cucullaea (Latiarca)3 sites
- Eopleurotoma3 sites
- Amalda (Gracilispira)2 sites
- Costacallista hectori2 sites
- Insolentia2 sites
- Oxyperas (Pseudoxyperas)2 sites
- Perissodonta2 sites
- Veneridae2 sites
- Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus)2 sites
- Aequispirella1 site
- Alcithoe (Waihaoia)1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Anatoma1 site
- Ancilla (Ancillus)1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Attenuata1 site
- Austrofusus (Austrofusus)1 site
- Bastropia1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
- Benthastelena1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Caestocorbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Triplicitella australis, 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
3 references- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
- Early Tertiary Mollusca from Otaio Gorge, South Canterbury1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Triplicitella australis 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 Triplicitella australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triplicitella australis 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 itTriplicitella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hutton 1873)