Tropidocoryphe

Tropidocoryphe

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TropidocoryphinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Tropidocoryphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 59 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 58 of 59 occurrencesDevonian432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 6 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 4 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 8 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 8 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 8 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426.7 Mya385.9 Mya432 Mya381 Mya

59 occurrences of Tropidocoryphe 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

59 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

27 formations

Ahrdorf — 50.22°N, 6.70°EJemelle — 50.16°N, 5.26°EJemelle — 50.05°N, 4.47°EJemelle — 49.98°N, 4.70°EDaleje-Trebotov — 49.92°N, 14.07°EBicken-Ense — 50.60°N, 8.25°EStinava-Chabicov — 50.00°N, 17.00°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EZlichov Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WOhle — 51.29°N, 8.04°EOhle — 51.28°N, 8.08°EClapassous — 43.50°N, 3.09°EClapassous — 43.59°N, 3.37°EJaphet — 43.57°N, 3.37°EJaphet — 43.50°N, 3.09°EVinarice Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°ELochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°EChotec — 49.50°N, 14.33°ERechoua Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WRahal Shale — 34.03°N, 6.85°WSidi Ahroun Limestone — 33.43°N, 6.02°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.38°N, 4.07°WKerdreolet — 48.40°N, 4.48°WBolast — 48.40°N, 4.48°WIhandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WTimrhanrhart — 29.71°N, 6.70°WKess-Kess — 31.42°N, 4.22°W

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The named rock units Tropidocoryphe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tropidocoryphe and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tropidocoryphe and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

726 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Tropidocoryphe, 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

25 references

Each of the 59 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Tropidocoryphe

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTropidocoryphinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Novak 1890)