Tropidendron
No picture of Tropidendron 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 Tropidendron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropiastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 215.38 Mya.
10 occurrences of Tropidendron on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
10 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Tropidendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tropidendron and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Tropidendron and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Margarophyllia capitata5 sites
- Porifera5 sites
- Stromatoporoidea5 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni4 sites
- Myriophyllum4 sites
- Remismilia sublaevis3 sites
- Volzeia badiotica3 sites
- Cassianastraea reussi2 sites
- Coryphyllia regularis2 sites
- Craspedophyllia alpina2 sites
- Distichophyllia gosaviensis2 sites
- Ladinella porata2 sites
- Margarosmilia confluens2 sites
- Margarosmilia septanectens2 sites
- Plexoramea cerebriformis2 sites
- Aculaechaetetes sp.1 site
- Alpinothalamia slovenica1 site
- Androzella labyrinthica1 site
- Araiophyllum triassicum1 site
- Atrochaetetes1 site
- Baccanella1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Blastochaetetes1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tropidendron, 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 referencesEach of the 10 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
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No picture of Tropidendron 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 Tropidendron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropidendron 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTropiastreidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuif 1975