Terebratella

Terebratella is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebratellidae.

Terebratella

Luis Ruiz Berti · CC BY-SA 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
TerebratellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 172 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 71 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 71 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 71 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 71 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 71 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 71 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 71 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 71 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences174.7 Mya2.58 Mya184 Mya0 Mya

71 occurrences of Terebratella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

71 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

26 formations

El Chacay — 46.92°S, 70.92°WEl Chacay — 47.33°S, 71.33°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.50°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.75°WEl Chacay — 47.42°S, 71.92°WEl Chacay — 47.53°S, 71.97°WEl Chacay — 48.83°S, 70.83°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.83°S, 176.53°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°EGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.69°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WBudden Canyon — 40.41°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.62°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.64°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WSan Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°WTumaio Limestone — 43.75°S, 176.67°EIsland Sandstone — 42.03°S, 171.35°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WTe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°ESecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WCalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.42°WMan Aike — 50.98°S, 72.02°WKokoamu Greensand — 45.04°S, 171.00°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WCoquimbo — 28.96°S, 71.50°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.97°S, 71.49°W

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The named rock units Terebratella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Terebratella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

742 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Terebratella, 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

32 references

Each of the 71 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. 19 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 Terebratella

Credit
Luis Ruiz Berti
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
terebratella sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-7000

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTerebratellinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1847