Terebella

Terebella is a genus of polychaetes belonging to the family Terebellidae.

Terebella

McIntosh, William C. (1885) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
TerebellomorphaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Terebellomorpha
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Terebellomorpha
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Terebellomorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 293 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 12.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 47 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 47 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 47 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 47 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 8 occurrences233–222 Mya — about 4 occurrences200–190 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–147 Mya — about 11 occurrences147–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–6.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence307 Mya13.82 Mya330 Mya7 Mya

47 occurrences of Terebella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

47 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

21 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.90°EChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WVarciorog — 46.95°N, 22.28°EVarciorog — 46.92°N, 22.30°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°EAberdouz — 32.37°N, 4.55°WVellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°ELlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EIdikel — 32.25°N, 4.50°WCouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°ECuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WPuentelles — 43.32°N, 4.87°WLores Limestone — 43.00°N, 4.48°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°WCamarena — 37.38°N, 4.78°WBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°EPlassen — 47.63°N, 13.80°EValea Magurii — 46.95°N, 22.28°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EInaltı — 41.64°N, 34.86°EHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°W

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The named rock units Terebella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebella and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Terebella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

457 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Terebella, 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

32 references

Each of the 47 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. 20 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

Media content1

Picture of Terebella

Credit
McIntosh, William C. (1885)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Terebella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTerebellomorpha through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.