Tetraphalerella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrophomeninaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
111 occurrences of Tetraphalerella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
111 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
27 formations
- Vaureal Formation36
- Red River Formation7
- Whittaker Formation5
- Stonington Formation4
- Lexington Limestone Formation4
- Whitewater Formation · Richmondian Group3
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The named rock units Tetraphalerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetraphalerella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tetraphalerella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
621 taxa- Eochonetes vaurealensis26 sites
- Strophomena planumbona21 sites
- Strophomena vetusta19 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax18 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis17 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa15 sites
- Megamyonia arethusa14 sites
- Zygospira modesta14 sites
- Megamyonia nitens13 sites
- Platystrophia clarksvillensis13 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata13 sites
- Plaesiomys subquadratus12 sites
- Platystrophia acutilirata11 sites
- Rafinesquina11 sites
- Strophomena11 sites
- Glyptorthis insculpta10 sites
- Platystrophia10 sites
- Hesperorthis8 sites
- Megamyonia unicostata8 sites
- Eochonetes clarksvillensis7 sites
- Hypsiptycha anticostiensis7 sites
- Isotelus7 sites
- Lepidocyclus perlamellosa7 sites
- Rhynchotrema dentatum7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Tetraphalerella, 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
31 references- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada35
- GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella10
- Some silicifled strophomenacean brachiopods from the Ordovician of Kentucky, with comments on the genus Pionomena7
- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie6
- Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain Formations, Southern Manitoba5
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec5
- Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario4
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan4
- Plectambonitacea, Strophomenacea, and Atrypacea from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas3
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography2
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Selety river basin, north Central Kazakhstan2
- Evolution of the Late Ordovician orthid brachiopod Gnamptorhynchos Jin, 1989 from Platystrophia King, 1850, in North America2
Each of the 111 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. 19 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
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No picture of Tetraphalerella 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 Tetraphalerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetraphalerella 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 itStrophomeninae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wang 1949)