Terebratella dorsata

Terebratella dorsata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebratellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48 Mya33.9 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

2 occurrences of Terebratella dorsata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

2 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

1 formation

Casamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°W

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The named rock units Terebratella dorsata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebratella dorsata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Terebratella dorsata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Terebratella dorsata, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Terebratella dorsata

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No 3D scan of Terebratella dorsata 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 itTerebratella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1792)