Terebratula praecox
No picture of Terebratula praecox was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Terebratula praecox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Terebratula praecox on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Terebratula praecox and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Terebratula praecox and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Diplospirella wissmanni3 sites
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis3 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli3 sites
- Pecten3 sites
- Tetractinella trigonella3 sites
- Austriellula2 sites
- Costirhynchopsis mentzeli2 sites
- Decurtella decurtata2 sites
- Dinarispira avarica2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis2 sites
- Aulacothyris cognata1 site
- Aulacothyris incurvata1 site
- Aulacothyris loeffelholzii1 site
- Aulacothyris praevaliana1 site
- Aulacothyris supina1 site
- Aulacothyris turgidula vesicularis n. ssp.1 site
- Aviculopecten aerarius1 site
- Aviculopecten schlosseri1 site
- Coenothyris vulgaris1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Diholkorhynchia dinarica1 site
- Dinarispira pia1 site
- Holcorhynchella bogumilorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Terebratula praecox, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Terebratula praecox was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Terebratula praecox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Terebratula praecox 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTerebratula through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1902