Tropidelasma strobilum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropidelasmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Tropidelasma strobilum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
7 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tropidelasma strobilum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tropidelasma strobilum and its relatives
PermianWhere Tropidelasma strobilum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Enteletes wolfcampensis6 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis6 sites
- Teguliferina boesei6 sites
- Meekella magnifica4 sites
- Parenteletes superbus4 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Derbyia profunda3 sites
- Hustedia trita trita3 sites
- Orthotichia kozlowskii3 sites
- Scacchinella exasperata3 sites
- Artinskia artiensis2 sites
- Boesites kingi2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Composita discina2 sites
- Composita strongyle2 sites
- Eolyttonia fredericksi2 sites
- Fimbrinia2 sites
- Heliospongia ramosa2 sites
- Heliospongia vokesi2 sites
- Kochiproductus2 sites
- Kozlowskia anterosulcata2 sites
- Meekella prionota2 sites
- Neochonetes2 sites
- Pontisia kingi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tropidelasma strobilum, 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 7 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 Tropidelasma strobilum 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 Tropidelasma strobilum, 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 itTropidelasma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1974