Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula
Searched as Terebra tantula. The Paleobiology Database treats Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula as the accepted name.
No picture of Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrioterebrumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
17 occurrences of Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Byram Formation9
- Hawthorn Formation1
- Chickasawhay Formation · Vicksburg Group1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Sinum mississippiense4 sites
- Chamelea3 sites
- Corbula engonata3 sites
- Cylichna3 sites
- Ficus mississippiensis3 sites
- Pitar (Chionella)3 sites
- Scobinella3 sites
- Scobinella caelata3 sites
- Anadara mummi2 sites
- Bathytoma2 sites
- Caricella demissa2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense2 sites
- Holospira2 sites
- Microsurcula2 sites
- Oliva ? mississippiensis santander2 sites
- Oliva mississippiensis santander2 sites
- Orthosurcula2 sites
- Pleuroliria2 sites
- Pleurotoma (Pleurofusia) longirostropsis2 sites
- Pleurotoma cristata2 sites
- Sconsia lintea2 sites
- Syntomodrillia tantula2 sites
- Tropisurcula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula, 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
6 references- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi8
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico5
- Hacobjan, 19741
- Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Terebra (Strioterebrum) tantula 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStrioterebrum through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1890