Teredolites

A picture published with the record for Teredolites. What it shows has not been checked.

Wilson44691 · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
IchnofossilsPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences132.6 Mya774 ka140 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Teredolites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

17 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

14 formations

Coleraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WNeslen — 39.14°N, 109.44°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WCouches du Freu — 45.82°N, 6.27°EArcillas de Morella — 40.49°N, 0.42°EHythe — 51.07°N, 1.08°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.32°N, 0.18°WNelsen — 39.14°N, 109.44°WTichet, Ménaka, Teberemt — 19.62°N, 0.20°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WHudspeth — 44.60°N, 120.17°W

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The named rock units Teredolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Teredolites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Teredolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

567 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Teredolites, 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

16 references

Each of the 17 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Teredolites

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leymerie 1842