Thecidellina

Thecidellina is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Thecidellinidae.

Thecidellina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecidellininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 23 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences59.24 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Thecidellina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

23 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

9 formations

Boat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EWhenuataru Tuff — 44.23°S, 176.22°WOnoua Limestone — 44.24°S, 176.24°WMotarata Limestone — 43.95°S, 176.48°WClayton — 31.51°N, 85.24°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WSentolo — 7.76°S, 110.16°ELower Red — 31.51°N, 52.73°E

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The named rock units Thecidellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecidellina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Thecidellina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

376 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Thecidellina, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thecidellina

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CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Thecidellina 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itThecidellininae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.