Terebellum fusiforme
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebellumPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
11 occurrences of Terebellum fusiforme on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Zallah Formation1
- Bracklesham Beds Formation1
- Barton Beds Formation1
- Inucu Formation1
- Capusu Formation1
- Mera Formation1
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The named rock units Terebellum fusiforme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Terebellum fusiforme and its relatives
EoceneWhere Terebellum fusiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta4 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Seraphs4 sites
- Chlamys biarritzensis3 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa3 sites
- Haustator imbricataria3 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancilla2 sites
- Arca biangula2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata sokolovi2 sites
- Bulla2 sites
- Campanile2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys)2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Crassatella sulcata2 sites
- Cubitostrea plicata2 sites
- Cylichna elliptica2 sites
- Cypraedia elegans2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Fusus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Terebellum fusiforme, 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
5 references- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]4
- Karagyuleva, 19643
- The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations2
- Tawadros, 20011
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each of the 11 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. 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 Terebellum fusiforme
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTerebellum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1802