Terebratula maxima

Terebratula maxima

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebratulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPliocene14–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12.8 Mya5.333 Mya14.3 Mya3.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Terebratula maxima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

6 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

2 formations

Pinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EPinczow — 50.54°N, 21.54°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.72°EPinczow — 50.46°N, 20.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.11°N, 1.51°E

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The named rock units Terebratula maxima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Terebratula maxima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terebratula maxima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Terebratula maxima, 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

Each of the 6 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. 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 Terebratula maxima

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No 3D scan of Terebratula maxima was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTerebratula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Friedberg 1924