Trochoplegma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComoseridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Comoseridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Comoseridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Comoseridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya157.9 Mya193.8 Mya148.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Trochoplegma on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

13 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

5 formations

Mughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EJaisalmer — 26.93°N, 70.95°E

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The named rock units Trochoplegma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trochoplegma and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Trochoplegma and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trochoplegma, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 Trochoplegma 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 Trochoplegma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Trochoplegma 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 itComoseridae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gregory 1900