Terebratalia hemphilli

eli gloor · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- TerebrataliaPBDB
- 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 least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 129 ka.
7 occurrences of Terebratalia hemphilli on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene48%
- Pleistocene52%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Terebratalia hemphilli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebratalia hemphilli and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Terebratalia hemphilli and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Calliostoma gemmulatum3 sites
- Calyptraea mamillaris3 sites
- Chlamys opuntia3 sites
- Chlamys rubida3 sites
- Crepidula princeps3 sites
- Crockerella conradiana3 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis3 sites
- Euvola bella3 sites
- Laqueus jeffreysi3 sites
- Nemocardium (Keenaea) centifilosum3 sites
- Panopea generosa3 sites
- Patinopecten caurinus3 sites
- Acteocina culcitella2 sites
- Actonia compacta2 sites
- Alia carinata2 sites
- Amphissa columbiana2 sites
- Boreotrophon pedroana2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Caesia perpinguis2 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum2 sites
- Cellaria mandibulata2 sites
- Chlamys hastata2 sites
- Coanicardita occidentalis2 sites
- Coanicardita ventricosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Terebratalia hemphilli, 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
5 references- New information on molluscan paleontology and depositional environments of the Upper Pliocene Pico Formation, Valencia area, Los Angeles County, southern California2
- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California2
- Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles1
- New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California1
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California1
Each of the 7 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 Terebratalia hemphilli
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- eli gloor
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Terebratalia hemphilli 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 itTerebratalia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1902)