Terebra

Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Terebra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 650 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 650 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 106 of 650 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 61 of 650 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 298 of 650 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 82 of 650 occurrencesPleistocene — about 100 of 650 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 19 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 46 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 19 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 19 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 16 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 20 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 34 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 35 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 39 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 41 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 60 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 51 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 30 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 71 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 96 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

650 occurrences of Terebra on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

650 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

161 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 28.75°N, 98.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EKama — 19.50°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°ETamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°E

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The named rock units Terebra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 137 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 116 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebra and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terebra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,478 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 302 sites for Terebra, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

185 references

Each of the 650 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. 173 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 content2

Picture of Terebra

Credit
Mande Holford, Nicolas Puillandre, Maria Vittoria Modica, Maren Watkins, Rachel Collin, Eldredge Bermingham, Baldomer…
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1789