Tropidocaris

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinocaridinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya358.86 Mya412 Mya351 Mya

2 occurrences of Tropidocaris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

1 formation

New Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°W

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The named rock units Tropidocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tropidocaris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tropidocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tropidocaris, 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

Each of the 2 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Tropidocaris 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 itRhinocaridina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.