Terebratulina

Terebratulina is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Cancellothyrididae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Terebratulina

Ida Shepard Oldroyd · Public Domain · 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
CancellothyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 176 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 741 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 741 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 36 of 741 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 741 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 295 of 741 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 741 occurrencesEocene — about 159 of 741 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 741 occurrencesMiocene — about 52 of 741 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 741 occurrencesPleistocene — about 99 of 741 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 20 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 12 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 5 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 27 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 21 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–78 Mya — about 37 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 46 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 162 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 46 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 13 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 21 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 19 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 76 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 37 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 32 occurrences12–6.0 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.0–0 Mya — about 121 occurrences165.3 Mya129 ka180 Mya0 Mya

741 occurrences of Terebratulina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

741 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

133 formations

Naha — 26.29°N, 127.78°ENaha — 26.40°N, 127.77°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.75°ENaha — 26.16°N, 127.79°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.72°ENaha — 26.70°N, 127.91°ENaha — 26.36°N, 127.86°ENaha — 26.31°N, 127.90°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.95°EDarnah — 32.75°N, 22.62°ECastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 35.00°N, 77.00°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 77.55°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.02°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.77°N, 0.29°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.21°N, 2.18°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESobe — 26.40°N, 127.73°ESobe — 26.68°N, 127.88°ESobe — 26.42°N, 127.82°ESobe — 26.26°N, 127.74°ESobe — 26.13°N, 127.71°EPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WSzoc Limestone — 47.10°N, 17.55°ESzoc Limestone — 47.22°N, 17.80°ESzoc Limestone — 47.30°N, 17.94°ESzoc Limestone — 47.13°N, 18.33°ESzoc Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.60°ESzoc Limestone — 47.01°N, 17.53°ESzoc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.60°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.83°S, 176.53°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°WAkaura — 37.04°N, 136.96°EAkaura — 37.06°N, 136.96°ESantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WSantee Limestone — 33.68°N, 80.77°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.55°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WManchioneal — 17.99°N, 76.25°WManchioneal — 18.17°N, 76.39°WManchioneal — 18.39°N, 76.89°WWerillup — 34.98°S, 118.05°EWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°EWerillup — 35.02°S, 117.88°EWerillup — 34.84°S, 118.17°EWerillup — 32.19°S, 123.77°ETaya — 39.72°N, 140.29°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°ESugota — 39.35°N, 140.38°EMoniwa — 38.23°N, 140.78°EMoniwa — 38.20°N, 140.85°EHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WNew Pit Chalk — 50.70°N, 3.10°WNew Pit Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.97°WTe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WTe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°WTe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°EKokoamu 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°ELower Chalk — 53.86°N, 0.66°WLower Chalk — 53.37°N, 0.01°WLower Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.07°E

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The named rock units Terebratulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 109 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 387 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratulina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Terebratulina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,454 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 519 sites for Terebratulina, 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

145 references

Each of the 741 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. 133 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 content3

Picture of Terebratulina

Credit
Ida Shepard Oldroyd
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Terebratulina unguicula · usnm:Acc3841178

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCancellothyridinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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