Trivia westfalica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriviaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Triviidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Triviidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Triviidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Trivia westfalica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Trivia westfalica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trivia westfalica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trivia westfalica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
274 taxa- Euspira5 sites
- Xenophora deshayesi5 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)4 sites
- Aequipecten3 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata3 sites
- Asthenotoma3 sites
- Babylonella3 sites
- Bittium (Bittium)3 sites
- Bittium spina3 sites
- Boreodrillia3 sites
- Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus)3 sites
- Chrysallida pygmaea3 sites
- Cochlis neglecta3 sites
- Cochlis tigrina3 sites
- Conus (Conolithes)3 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna)3 sites
- Eudolium3 sites
- Euspira helicina3 sites
- Ficus conditus3 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)3 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima3 sites
- Limopsis3 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita3 sites
- Metuonella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trivia westfalica, 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- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)2
- Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Miocans von Dingden und seiner Mollusken-Fauna 22
- The mollusc fauna of the Stemerdink Bed (Miocene, Reinbekian) from outcrops in the Slinge brook at Winterswijk-Brinkheurne (The Netherlands, province of Gelderland)1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1
Picture of Trivia westfalica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Trivia westfalica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTrivia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schilder 1929