Tetraphalerella hecuba
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraphalerellaPBDB
- 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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
43 occurrences of Tetraphalerella hecuba 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
43 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
5 formations
- Vaureal Formation36
- Waynesville Formation3
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group2
- Surprise Creek Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group1
- Vauréal Formation · Anticosti Group1
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The named rock units Tetraphalerella hecuba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetraphalerella hecuba and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tetraphalerella hecuba and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Eochonetes vaurealensis26 sites
- Megamyonia arethusa14 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa10 sites
- Megamyonia nitens9 sites
- Strophomena vetusta8 sites
- Strophomena planumbona6 sites
- Archaeochonetes primigenius3 sites
- Catazyga headi3 sites
- Platystrophia clarksvillensis3 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata3 sites
- Cyclonema bilix2 sites
- Hypsiptycha janea2 sites
- Lobocorallium2 sites
- Mjoesina ceres2 sites
- Plaesiomys carletona2 sites
- Plectambonites sericeus2 sites
- Pterinea demissa2 sites
- Rugomena planocorrugata2 sites
- Trochonema coxi2 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Archeochonetes muirwoodae1 site
- Aulacera undulata1 site
- Bighornia patella1 site
- Billingsites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Tetraphalerella hecuba, 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
6 references- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada35
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec3
- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland2
- Shell structure and its bearing on the phylogeny of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian strophomenoid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Quebec1
- Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario1
- Geology of Anticosti Island1
Each of the 43 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
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No picture of Tetraphalerella hecuba 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 Tetraphalerella hecuba, 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 itTetraphalerella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)