Tritoechia sinuata
No picture of Tritoechia sinuata 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 Tritoechia sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TritoechiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tritoechia sinuata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Wah Wah Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Garden City Formation1
- Smithville Formation1
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The named rock units Tritoechia sinuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tritoechia sinuata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tritoechia sinuata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Leptella nevadensis3 sites
- Archaeorthis elongata2 sites
- Hesperonomia antelopensis2 sites
- Rhynchocamara2 sites
- Syntrophopsis2 sites
- Acidiphorus brighti1 site
- Agnostus1 site
- Archaeorthis costellata1 site
- Barrandia1 site
- Bellerophontina1 site
- Benthamaspis diminutiva1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Carolinites genacinaca1 site
- Catoraphiceras foerstei1 site
- Ceratopea latiumbilicata1 site
- Cybelopsis1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Dimeropygiella caudanodosa1 site
- Diparelasma1 site
- Eccyliopterus1 site
- Encrinuridae1 site
- Forteyops sexapugia1 site
- Goniotelina brevis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tritoechia sinuata, 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- Paleozoic rocks of Antelope Valley, Eureka and Nye Counties, Nevada1
- A New Upper Canadian Fauna from a Deep Well in Tennessee1
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah1
- Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Tritoechia sinuata 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 Tritoechia sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tritoechia sinuata 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 itTritoechia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1938