Trochonemella arachne
No picture of Trochonemella arachne was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Trochonemella arachne, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochonemellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Trochonemella arachne 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
3 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
3 formations
- Chaumont Formation1
- Bobcaygeon Formation1
- Lowville Formation · Ottawa Group1
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The named rock units Trochonemella arachne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trochonemella arachne and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Trochonemella arachne and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Eotomaria dryope3 sites
- Helicotoma planulata3 sites
- Lophospira milleri3 sites
- Lophospira serrulata3 sites
- Lophospira ventricosa3 sites
- Macroscenella superba3 sites
- Paraliospira larvata3 sites
- Pterotheca expansa3 sites
- Salpingostoma billingsi3 sites
- Salpingostoma expansa3 sites
- Straparollina circe3 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata3 sites
- Cyrtospira parvula2 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis2 sites
- Daidia cerithioides2 sites
- Ectomaria pagoda2 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta2 sites
- Eunema centralis2 sites
- Eunema helicteres2 sites
- Eunema strigillatum2 sites
- Gyronema semicarinatum2 sites
- Haplospira nereis2 sites
- Holopea pyrene2 sites
- Holopea rotunda2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trochonemella arachne, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Trochonemella arachne was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Trochonemella arachne, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochonemella arachne 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 itTrochonemella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)