Terebratulina retusa

Terebratulina retusa

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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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Terebratulina retusa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

32 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

9 formations

Rhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°EBreda — 51.41°N, 4.22°ESant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°ESagavanirktok — 69.96°N, 144.77°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WCalcareniti del Salento — 40.00°N, 18.42°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WMarnes de Saint-Etienned’Orthe — 43.59°N, 1.18°WCalcari a Briozoi — 41.80°N, 15.39°E

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The named rock units Terebratulina retusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratulina retusa and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Terebratulina retusa, 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

15 references

Each of the 32 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Terebratulina retusa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Terebratulina retusa · usnm:Acc399724

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 itTerebratulina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)