Terebratellidae

Terebratellidae is an extant family of brachiopods with a fossil record dating back to the Jurassic.

Terebratellidae

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
TerebratelloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 410 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 410 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 410 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 410 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 410 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 410 occurrencesEocene — about 110 of 410 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 52 of 410 occurrencesMiocene — about 166 of 410 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 410 occurrencesPleistocene — about 43 of 410 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 0.1 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 4 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 20 occurrences49–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–37 Mya — about 34 occurrences37–31 Mya — about 55 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 39 occurrences25–18 Mya — about 130 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 39 occurrences12–6.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.1–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences174.7 Mya11.7 ka184 Mya0 Mya

410 occurrences of Terebratellidae 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

410 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

60 formations

Ascot — 31.34°S, 115.90°EAscot — 32.10°S, 115.86°EAscot — 31.94°S, 115.94°EAscot — 32.15°S, 115.89°EAscot — 30.74°S, 115.50°EAscot — 31.77°S, 115.86°EAscot — 32.06°S, 115.96°EAscot — 32.00°S, 116.00°EAscot — 32.10°S, 115.85°EAscot — 32.67°S, 115.82°EAscot — 33.28°S, 115.73°EAscot — 31.98°S, 115.94°EWilson Bluff — 31.68°S, 129.00°EWilson Bluff — 31.02°S, 126.08°EWilson Bluff — 32.07°S, 126.10°EWilson Bluff — 32.27°S, 126.04°EWilson Bluff — 32.04°S, 126.04°EWilson Bluff — 31.72°S, 127.23°EWilson Bluff — 31.97°S, 125.92°EWilson Bluff — 31.66°S, 128.49°EWilson Bluff — 30.74°S, 126.39°EWilson Bluff — 31.65°S, 127.02°EWilson Bluff — 31.65°S, 128.77°EWilson Bluff — 33.40°S, 123.85°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.72°S, 127.22°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.90°S, 127.02°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.03°S, 126.03°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.70°S, 127.73°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.08°S, 126.18°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.07°S, 126.10°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.68°S, 127.02°EEl 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 — 47.50°S, 71.67°WEl Chacay — 48.83°S, 70.83°WKokoamu Greensand — 45.04°S, 171.00°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.88°S, 170.62°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.87°S, 170.72°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.66°S, 170.65°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.92°S, 170.85°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.69°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.79°S, 127.02°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.97°S, 125.92°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.65°S, 127.02°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.98°S, 127.03°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.68°S, 129.00°EWerillup — 34.98°S, 118.05°EWerillup — 34.84°S, 118.17°EWerillup — 34.63°S, 116.28°EWerillup — 34.67°S, 118.42°ERed 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°WToolinna Limestone — 32.76°S, 123.61°EToolinna Limestone — 32.73°S, 125.03°EIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EOtotara — 45.08°S, 170.93°EOtotara — 45.17°S, 170.90°EOtotara — 45.12°S, 170.98°EWaititi — 35.44°S, 173.30°EWaititi — 35.54°S, 173.37°EWaititi — 35.55°S, 173.49°EWaititi — 35.56°S, 173.49°ESquires Greensand — 44.51°S, 170.92°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WSan Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WTumaio Limestone — 43.75°S, 176.67°ERoe Calcarenite — 31.96°S, 127.58°ERoe Calcarenite — 31.92°S, 127.44°EMt Brown Limestone — 43.13°S, 172.78°ECape Rodney — 36.45°S, 174.87°EBudden Canyon — 40.41°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.62°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.64°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°WMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°E

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The named rock units Terebratellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 111 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terebratellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,096 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 270 sites for Terebratellidae, and this reads 240 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

60 references

Each of the 410 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. 48 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 content1

Picture of Terebratellidae

Credit
Luis Ruiz Berti
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Terebratellidae 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1850