Tritonophon trilobatus

No picture of Tritonophon trilobatus 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 Tritonophon trilobatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TritonophonPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plectonotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurian439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432.9 Mya425 Mya439.1 Mya422.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Tritonophon trilobatus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Sauquoit — 43.03°N, 75.28°WUpper Whitcliffe — 51.71°N, 3.97°W

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The named rock units Tritonophon trilobatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tritonophon trilobatus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tritonophon trilobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tritonophon trilobatus, 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

2 references

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 Tritonophon trilobatus 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 Tritonophon trilobatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tritonophon trilobatus 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 itTritonophon through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)