Terebellum carcassense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebellumPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Terebellum carcassense on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
22 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
7 formations
- Kohat Formation10
- Shekhan Formation4
- Baska Formation3
- Drazinda Formation2
- Dammam Formation1
- Ghazij Formation1
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The named rock units Terebellum carcassense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebellum carcassense and its relatives
EoceneWhere Terebellum carcassense and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Indovoluta humberti6 sites
- Pachycrommium flemingi6 sites
- Gosavia multidentata5 sites
- Akera pseudodesioi3 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata3 sites
- Tibia (Hippochrenes) ampla3 sites
- Ampullella nuttalli2 sites
- Euthriofusus malcomsoni2 sites
- Haustator imbricataria2 sites
- Pyrazus indicus2 sites
- Rimella pakistanica2 sites
- Velates perversus2 sites
- Volutospina kohatica2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea1 site
- Chama calcarata1 site
- Corbula (Bicorbula) subexarata1 site
- Galeodea aegyptiaca1 site
- Gisortia murchisoni1 site
- Globularia (Ampullinopsis) altivapincana1 site
- Involuta daviesi1 site
- Mytilus cleopatrae1 site
- Rawya pharaonis1 site
- Spondylus radula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Terebellum carcassense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District21
- Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island1
Each of the 22 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
Media content1
Picture of Terebellum carcassense
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Terebellum carcassense 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 itTerebellum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leymerie 1846