Tryplasmatidae

Tryplasma Lonsdale, 1845, a relative of Tryplasmatidae — not Tryplasmatidae itself

Not Tryplasmatidae. This is Tryplasma Lonsdale, 1845, a relative — both are Tryplasmatidae.

Paalits, I. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
CystiphyllidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 53 of 377 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 196 of 377 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 124 of 377 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 377 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 377 occurrencesPermian462–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–449 Mya — about 32 occurrences449–443 Mya — about 18 occurrences443–436 Mya — about 41 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 63 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 60 occurrences424–417 Mya — about 52 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 61 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 15 occurrences405–398 Mya — about 12 occurrences398–392 Mya — about 8 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–277 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence457.2 Mya283.3 Mya462 Mya271 Mya

377 occurrences of Tryplasmatidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

377 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

159 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 40.00°N, 97.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WCoeymans — 42.99°N, 75.46°WCoeymans — 42.98°N, 75.58°WCoeymans — 43.00°N, 75.67°WCoeymans — 43.99°N, 75.63°WCoeymans — 43.02°N, 75.76°WQuinton — 20.00°S, 145.00°EVerkhneargskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.59°S, 148.89°ECoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EBrassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 37.71°N, 83.98°WXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.75°N, 118.42°EXiazhen — 28.71°N, 118.38°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ESilverdale — 35.00°S, 149.00°ETurkparidinskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EKulamat — 53.00°N, 57.18°EKulamat — 52.97°N, 57.02°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EGarra — 33.00°S, 149.00°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WShihniulan — 28.55°N, 106.87°EShihniulan — 28.98°N, 107.08°ERoberts Mountains — 39.93°N, 116.27°WRoberts Mountains — 40.72°N, 116.35°WBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°EGionyama — 32.63°N, 131.18°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EKõrgessaare — 59.17°N, 24.75°EKõrgessaare — 58.95°N, 22.43°EKõrgessaare — 58.99°N, 24.78°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°ESkala — 49.02°N, 25.80°EZvenigorod suite — 48.55°N, 26.28°ECanberra — 35.28°S, 149.13°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EWindmill Limestone — 39.93°N, 116.47°W

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The named rock units Tryplasmatidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 135 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tryplasmatidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tryplasmatidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 266 sites for Tryplasmatidae, and this reads 240 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

120 references

Each of the 377 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. 108 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 Tryplasma Lonsdale, 1845

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paalits, I.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itCystiphyllida through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge 1907