Triticites ventricosus

Triticites ventricosus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriticitesPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304.2 Mya298.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Triticites ventricosus 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

6 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

2 formations

Casper — 41.32°N, 105.58°WBird Spring — 34.98°N, 115.54°W

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The named rock units Triticites ventricosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triticites ventricosus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Triticites ventricosus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Triticites ventricosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 6 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 Triticites ventricosus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Triticites ventricosus 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 itTriticites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1858)