Terebratalia

Terebratalia is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebrataliidae.

Terebratalia

Marilynne Box · CC BY 4.0 · 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
TerebrataliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 80 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 80 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

80 occurrences of Terebratalia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

80 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

31 formations

Pico — 34.41°N, 118.69°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WWakimoto — 40.29°N, 140.08°ETaya — 39.72°N, 140.29°EAkaura — 37.04°N, 136.96°EAkaura — 37.06°N, 136.96°ESuenomatsuyama — 40.28°N, 141.30°EOtsutsumi — 38.43°N, 140.85°EEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.27°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WOhyr — 38.38°N, 140.32°EJunicho — 36.85°N, 136.97°EUtsuno — 38.62°N, 140.75°ESukegawa — 36.60°N, 140.64°EPancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 36.25°N, 121.29°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WBateque — 26.30°N, 112.41°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WMaanshan — 21.97°N, 120.76°ESzekou — 22.02°N, 120.72°EDaishaka — 40.76°N, 140.59°E

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The named rock units Terebratalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratalia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Terebratalia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,058 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Terebratalia, 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

26 references

Each of the 80 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. 14 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 Terebratalia

Credit
Marilynne Box
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTerebrataliinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beecher 1893