Terebratuloidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebratulidinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 387 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 0 Mya.
1,987 occurrences of Terebratuloidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1,987 occurrences- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permian10%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassic2%
- Late Triassic3%
- Early Jurassic4%
- Middle Jurassic6%
- Late Jurassic7%
- Early Cretaceous24%
- Late Cretaceous12%
- Paleocene2%
- Eocene11%
- Oligocene2%
- Miocene8%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene4%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
290 formations
- Wargal Formation110
- Tataouine Formation56
- Szoc Limestone Formation43
- Wilson Bluff Formation35
- Cassian Formation · Wegen Group24
- Hanifa Formation · Shaqra Group21
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The named rock units Terebratuloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 266 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 919 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Terebratuloidea and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Terebratuloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,972 taxa- Terebratula89 sites
- Rhynchonella43 sites
- Lima32 sites
- Plagiostoma30 sites
- Ostrea28 sites
- Pholadomya27 sites
- Arca25 sites
- Astarte25 sites
- Bryozoa25 sites
- Pleurotomaria25 sites
- Cardium23 sites
- Gibbithyris23 sites
- Nerinea23 sites
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cuvierii22 sites
- Inoceramus apicalis22 sites
- Natica22 sites
- Serpula22 sites
- Toxaster22 sites
- Cidaris21 sites
- Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)20 sites
- Panopea20 sites
- Pecten20 sites
- Porifera20 sites
- Chlamys19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,379 sites for Terebratuloidea, and this reads 240 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
400 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range123
- English Aptian Terebratulidae72
- Revision of Miocene brachiopods of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, with special regard to the Meznerics collection55
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand47
- Middle Eocene brachiopods from the Szoc Limestone Formation (Bakony Mountains, Hungary), with a description of a new genus43
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois43
- Palökologie benthischer Faunengemeinschaften und Taxonomie der Bivalven im Jura von Südtunesien39
- The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops)38
- Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin33
- Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien31
- Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe30
- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia26
Each of the 1,987 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. 388 further references are not listed. 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 Terebratuloidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Terebratuloidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTerebratulidina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840