Terebratalia pacifica

No picture of Terebratalia pacifica 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 Terebratalia pacifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13.82 Mya774 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Terebratalia pacifica 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

3 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

3 formations

Wakimoto — 40.29°N, 140.08°ETaya — 39.72°N, 140.29°ESuenomatsuyama — 40.28°N, 141.30°E

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The named rock units Terebratalia pacifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Terebratalia pacifica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Terebratalia pacifica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Terebratalia pacifica, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Terebratalia pacifica 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 Terebratalia pacifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Terebratalia pacifica 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. Hatai 1936