Terranovella dorsalis
No picture of Terranovella dorsalis 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 Terranovella dorsalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerranovellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lonchocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Terranovella dorsalis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
16 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
- Deadwood Formation8
- Boothia Felix Formation3
- Petit Jardin Formation · Port Au Port Group2
- Rabbitkettle Formation2
- Conococheague Formation1
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The named rock units Terranovella dorsalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terranovella dorsalis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Terranovella dorsalis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Pseudagnostina douvillei10 sites
- Blountia8 sites
- Coosia alethes8 sites
- Crepicephalus8 sites
- Kingstonia7 sites
- Kingstonia walcotti6 sites
- Amiaspis5 sites
- Coosina ariston5 sites
- Hadragnostus modestus5 sites
- Blountiella4 sites
- Nahannagnostus nganasanicus4 sites
- Tricrepicephalus tripunctatus4 sites
- Ankoura3 sites
- Crepicephalus buttsi3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Tricrepicephalus coria3 sites
- Acmarhachis typicalis2 sites
- Coosella2 sites
- Crepicephalus iowensis2 sites
- Glaphyraspis2 sites
- Komaspidella laevis2 sites
- Komaspidella lata2 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus2 sites
- Pemphigaspis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Terranovella dorsalis, 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
5 references- Trilobites, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy of the Crepicephalus and Aphelaspis zones, Lower Deadwood formation (Marjuman and Steptoean Stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota8
- A Late Cambrian (Dresbachian, Crepicephalus Zone) fauna from the Boothia Peninsula, District of Franklin3
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada2
- Upper Cambrian (Marjuman-Steptoean) trilobites from the Port Au Port Group, western Newfoundland2
- Dresbachian and Franconian trilobites of the Conococheague and Frederick Limestones of the central Appalachians1
Each of the 16 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 Terranovella dorsalis 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 Terranovella dorsalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Terranovella dorsalis 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 itTerranovella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1863)