Triplophyllum

A picture published with the record for Triplophyllum. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StreptelasmatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 11 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 8 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–341 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya298.9 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

11 occurrences of Triplophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

4 formations

Monte Cristo — 35.89°N, 115.65°WMonte Cristo — 35.88°N, 115.71°WLower Shiqipo — 28.15°N, 85.97°ESaginaw Bay — 56.86°N, 134.15°WBird Spring — 35.39°N, 115.54°W

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The named rock units Triplophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triplophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Triplophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Triplophyllum, 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

4 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Triplophyllum

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStreptelasmatinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1900