Terebratulina tejonensis

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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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
6 occurrences of Terebratulina tejonensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Terebratulina tejonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebratulina tejonensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Terebratulina tejonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Cucullaea mathewsonii3 sites
- Glycymerita major3 sites
- Lacunaria striata3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) packardi3 sites
- Paphia clarki3 sites
- Pitaria praenominata3 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis3 sites
- Solen3 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Crassatella unioides2 sites
- Dentalium cooperi2 sites
- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii2 sites
- Mactromeris tenuissima2 sites
- Meretrix stantoni2 sites
- Miltha turneri2 sites
- Modiolus ornatus2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis2 sites
- Plicatula ostreiformis2 sites
- Polinices hornii2 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2 sites
- Seraphs thompsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Terebratulina tejonensis, 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
4 references- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Western North America2
- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California2
- Additions to the Eocene megafossil fauna of the Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, southern California1
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California1
Each of the 6 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 tejonensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Terebratulina tejonensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1896