Terebralia

Terebralia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.

Terebralia

Christoph Kühne · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PotamididaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 18 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 123 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 123 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 123 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 123 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 123 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

123 occurrences of Terebralia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

123 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

40 formations

Jalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.36°WMekran — 25.50°N, 62.75°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGaj — 25.56°N, 67.90°EGaj — 26.88°N, 67.26°EJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°EKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°EBand-e- Chaker — 26.68°N, 57.93°EBatuputih — 9.11°S, 124.89°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°EYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°ETubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.39°N, 1.26°ECaballas — 14.94°S, 75.48°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°EAmeke — 6.83°N, 7.08°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°ECulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WLower Sandstone — 34.87°N, 133.03°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EMelissano Limestone — 39.95°N, 18.07°E

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The named rock units Terebralia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebralia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terebralia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Terebralia, 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

57 references

Each of the 123 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. 45 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 content2

Picture of Terebralia

Credit
Christoph Kühne
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPotamididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)