Terebratula ampulla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebratulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- 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 3.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
14 occurrences of Terebratula ampulla on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
14 occurrences- Pliocene71%
- Pleistocene29%
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
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The named rock units Terebratula ampulla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Terebratula ampulla and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Terebratula ampulla and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Aphelesia margineplicata2 sites
- Terebratula terebratula2 sites
- Aphelesia bipartita1 site
- Hemisyntrachelus1 site
- Maltaia pajaudi1 site
- Terebratula calabra1 site
- Terebratula sinuosa1 site
- Terebratulina retusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Terebratula ampulla, 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
4 references- Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin6
- Braquiópodos Pliocenos de Águilas6
- Nota sobre Terebratulinae del Terciario de Europa y su relación con los representantes neógenos del sureste español1
- The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops)1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Terebratula ampulla 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 Terebratula ampulla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Terebratula ampulla 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 itTerebratula through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brocchi 1814)