Terquemia
Searched as Carpenteria marocana. The Paleobiology Database treats Terquemia as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- ProspondylideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pterioida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Terquemia 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
5 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
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The named rock units Terquemia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Terquemia and its relatives
PermianWhere Terquemia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
795 taxa- Parallelodon14 sites
- Coenothyris vulgaris13 sites
- Hoernesia socialis12 sites
- Pleuromya12 sites
- Schafhaeutlia12 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus10 sites
- Plagiostoma10 sites
- Modiolus9 sites
- Plagiostoma striatum9 sites
- Plicatula9 sites
- Astarte8 sites
- Bakevellia costata8 sites
- Bivalvia8 sites
- Elegantinia elegans8 sites
- Entolium8 sites
- Entolium discites8 sites
- Arcomya7 sites
- Elegantinia7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Gervillia (Cultriopsis) angusta7 sites
- Lima7 sites
- Myoconcha7 sites
- Neritaria7 sites
- Placunopsis ostracina7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Terquemia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Terquemia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Terquemia 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 itProspondylidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1860