Terraia aequilateralis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerraiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Terraia aequilateralis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
- Corumbataí Formation · Passa Dois Group12
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The named rock units Terraia aequilateralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terraia aequilateralis and its relatives
PermianWhere Terraia aequilateralis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Pinzonella illusa12 sites
- Plesiocyprinella carinata12 sites
- Casterella gratiosa8 sites
- Cowperesia anceps7 sites
- Holdhausiella elongata6 sites
- Roxoa corumbataiensis6 sites
- Coxesia mezzalirai5 sites
- Ferrazia cardinalis4 sites
- Othonella araguaiana4 sites
- Jacquesia3 sites
- Cowperesia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Terraia aequilateralis, 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
3 references- Formação Corumbataí na região do Rio Corumbataí (estratigrafia e descrição dos lamelibrânquios)7
- Shell beds as paleoecological puzzles: a case study from the Upper Permian of the Parana Basin, Brazil3
- Lamelibrânquios permianos do Estado do Mato Grosso (Formação Estrada Nova)2
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Terraia aequilateralis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Terraia aequilateralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itTerraia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mendes 1952