Terebratella crofti

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebratellaPBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
3 occurrences of Terebratella crofti 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Terebratella crofti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebratella crofti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Terebratella crofti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Bouchardia antarctica2 sites
- Hemithiris2 sites
- Hemithiris antarctica2 sites
- Laquethiris curiosa2 sites
- Macandrevia cooperi2 sites
- Magella australis2 sites
- Magellania antarctica2 sites
- Notosaria seymourensis2 sites
- Seymourella oweni2 sites
- Terebratulina buckmani2 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi1 site
- Australoneilo rossi1 site
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum1 site
- Austroficopsis wimani1 site
- Austrosullivania striata1 site
- Austrotoma oliveroi1 site
- Basiliola minuta1 site
- Callorhinchus stahli1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
- Colposigma euthenia1 site
- Conomitra antarctolirata1 site
- Conomitra cernohorskyi1 site
- Conomitra iredalei1 site
- Conopora mariae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Terebratella crofti, 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
2 references- Brachiopods from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula2
- Tertiary and Cretaceous brachiopods from Seymour, Cockburn and James Ross Islands, Antarctica1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Terebratella crofti
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No 3D scan of Terebratella crofti was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTerebratella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1980