Terebratulina lachryma

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebratulinaPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Terebratulina lachryma 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
13 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
6 formations
- Yazoo Clay Formation3
- Santee Limestone Formation3
- Castle Hayne Formation3
- Yazoo Formation2
- Crystal River Limestone Formation1
- Santee Formation1
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The named rock units Terebratulina lachryma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebratulina lachryma and its relatives
EoceneWhere Terebratulina lachryma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Chlamys9 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis4 sites
- Cirsotrema3 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis3 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Cidaris pratti2 sites
- Coelopleurus infulatus2 sites
- Eutrephoceras carolinensis2 sites
- Flabellum2 sites
- Gigantostrea trigonalis2 sites
- Isocrania2 sites
- Meiocardia carolinae2 sites
- Protoscutella conradi2 sites
- Spondylus2 sites
- Spondylus dumosus2 sites
- Spondylus lamellacea2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Vertebrata2 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis1 site
- Alectryonia ludoviciana1 site
- Altrix1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argyrotheca quadrata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Terebratulina lachryma, 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
7 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina3
- Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States2
- Paleogene Verrucidae (Cirripedia: Verrucomorpha) of North America, with descriptions of three new species1
- Stratigraphy of the Eocene Santee Limestone in three quarries of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 13 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 Terebratulina lachryma
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Terebratulina lachryma 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 itTerebratulina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1833)