Terebratalia
Searched as Terebratalia gouldii ugoensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Terebratalia as the accepted name.
Terebratalia is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebrataliidae.

Marilynne Box · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- TerebrataliinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Terebratalia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Terebratalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebratalia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Terebratalia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,058 taxa- Turritella cooperi14 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana13 sites
- Coptothyris grayi12 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium12 sites
- Panopea generosa11 sites
- Saccella taphria10 sites
- Anadara trilineata9 sites
- Chlamys hastata9 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis9 sites
- Lyropecten catalinae9 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa9 sites
- Argopecten invalidus8 sites
- Cumingia californica8 sites
- Hemithyris psittacea8 sites
- Myrakeena veatchii8 sites
- Solen sicarius8 sites
- Californiconus californicus7 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima7 sites
- Crockerella conradiana7 sites
- Here excavata7 sites
- Hima cooperi7 sites
- Hima mendica7 sites
- Paciocinebrina lurida7 sites
- Patinopecten healeyi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Terebratalia, 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 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Terebratalia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Marilynne Box
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTerebrataliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beecher 1893