Torellella

Torellella is a genus of problematic tubicolous fossils. They have slightly conical, phosphatic tubes with elliptical cross-section. Their fossils are known from the Cambrian.

Torellella

Olev Vinn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
TorellellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Torellellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Torellellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Torellellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 457.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 164 of 165 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 165 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 2 occurrences535–532 Mya — about 2 occurrences532–529 Mya — about 2 occurrences529–526 Mya — about 3 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 26 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 33 occurrences521–518 Mya — about 24 occurrences518–515 Mya — about 23 occurrences515–512 Mya — about 23 occurrences512–509 Mya — about 10 occurrences509–506 Mya — about 4 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 4 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence525.5 Mya458.2 Mya540 Mya456 Mya

165 occurrences of Torellella 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

165 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

46 formations

Pestrotsvet — 57.35°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EWeymouth — 42.03°N, 71.38°WWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°EChulaktau — 43.68°N, 69.68°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.45°EFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 72.85°N, 25.03°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°ELáncara — 42.90°N, 5.17°WCuslett — 46.00°N, 60.00°WCuslett — 45.77°N, 60.29°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EBeshtash — 42.17°N, 72.00°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EÜlgase — 59.45°N, 25.67°EÜlgase — 59.34°N, 26.52°EÜlgase — 59.49°N, 25.09°EElla Island — 74.35°N, 22.77°WElla Island — 74.10°N, 22.98°WKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EKrasnoporog — 67.14°N, 86.75°ELastours — 43.32°N, 2.53°EWades Lane — 45.08°N, 66.75°WSellick Hill — 35.37°S, 138.38°EMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°EBrigus — 45.77°N, 60.29°WMickwitzia Sandstone — 58.60°N, 13.35°EMickwitzia Sandstone — 58.62°N, 13.43°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°ESukharikha — 67.14°N, 86.75°EZhujianqing — 24.73°N, 102.57°E

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The named rock units Torellella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Torellella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Torellella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Torellella, 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

40 references

Each of the 165 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. 28 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 Torellella

Credit
Olev Vinn
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itTorellellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holm 1893