Terebratulina perplexa

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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 most 1.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 9 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–997 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences997 ka–920 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences920 ka–843 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences843 ka–767 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences767 ka–690 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences690 ka–613 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences613 ka–537 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences537 ka–460 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460 ka–383 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383 ka–307 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 ka–230 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230 ka–153 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153 ka–77 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Terebratulina perplexa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

9 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

Naha — 26.32°N, 127.78°ENaha — 26.36°N, 127.74°ENaha — 26.36°N, 127.86°ENaha — 26.31°N, 127.90°ESobe — 26.26°N, 127.74°E

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

Terebratulina perplexa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Terebratulina perplexa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Terebratulina perplexa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Terebratulina perplexa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Terebratulina perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Terebratulina perplexa 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1957