Tetraserpula

No picture of Tetraserpula 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 Tetraserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulimorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Motility
stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192.9 Mya157.9 Mya200.4 Mya153.9 Mya

16 occurrences of Tetraserpula on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

16 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

4 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKellaways Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAmpthill Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WTres Esquinas — 34.92°S, 69.77°W

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The named rock units Tetraserpula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetraserpula and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Tetraserpula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tetraserpula, 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

Each of the 16 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 Tetraserpula 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 Tetraserpula, 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 itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parsch 1956