Trolmenia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaconodontidaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Trolmenia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
8 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Trolmenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trolmenia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Trolmenia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Problematoconites8 sites
- Westergaardodina8 sites
- Furnishina6 sites
- Prooneotodus gallatini6 sites
- Muellerodus4 sites
- Prosagittodontus4 sites
- Proacodus3 sites
- Westergaardodina bicuspidata3 sites
- Parabolina (Neoparabolina) lobata2 sites
- Phakelodus2 sites
- Phakelodus tenuis2 sites
- Proconodontus muelleri2 sites
- Prosagittodontus dahlmani2 sites
- Ctenopyge (Eoctenopyge) angusta1 site
- Ctenopyge (Eoctenopyge) modesta1 site
- Diaphanodus compressus1 site
- Eurycare brevicauda1 site
- Eurycare latum1 site
- Leptoplastus1 site
- Leptoplastus abnormis1 site
- Leptoplastus crassicornis1 site
- Leptoplastus ovatus1 site
- Muellerodus cambricus1 site
- Nogamiconus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Trolmenia, 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
2 references- Upper Furongian (Cambrian) conodonts from the Degerhamn quarry road section, southern Öland, Sweden6
- Cambrian (Series 3 – Furongian) conodonts from the Alum Shale Formation at Slemmestad, Oslo Region, Norway2
Each of the 8 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 Trolmenia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Trolmenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itParaconodontida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller and Hinz 1991