Terquemiidae

Terquemia Tate, 1867, a relative of Terquemiidae — not Terquemiidae itself

Not Terquemiidae. This is Terquemia Tate, 1867, a relative — both are Terquemiidae.

Péron, Pierre Alphonse · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PectinoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 126 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 80 of 126 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 28 of 126 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 126 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 126 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 126 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 126 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 126 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 126 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 6 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 72 occurrences238–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–219 Mya — about 4 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 4 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 6 occurrences207–200 Mya — about 11 occurrences200–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–87 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences243.43 Mya72.2 Mya251 Mya62 Mya

126 occurrences of Terquemiidae on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

126 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

20 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ENayband — 32.41°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.51°N, 57.36°ENayband — 32.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.14°N, 57.32°EGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°WTrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 51.62°N, 9.12°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ELuning — 38.88°N, 117.58°WDont — 46.72°N, 12.05°EHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WFelsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsörs — 46.88°N, 17.63°EWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°ESandilands — 53.91°N, 133.15°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EModin — 41.25°N, 122.33°WWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EConzen — 46.43°N, 13.57°EGermig — 28.70°N, 86.14°EMuschelkalk — 50.40°N, 18.71°EJena — 52.47°N, 13.78°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°E

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The named rock units Terquemiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terquemiidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Terquemiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Terquemiidae, 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

28 references

Each of the 126 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. 16 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 content1

Picture of Terquemia Tate, 1867

Source
GBIF
Credit
Péron, Pierre Alphonse
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPectinoidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1964