Terebratula Müller 1776 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae

Full reference: O. F. Müller. 1776. Zoologicae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum. Characteres, Nomina et Synonyma Imprimis Popularium 1-281

Parent taxon: Terebratulinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Anderson 1938, Bitner and Martinell 2001, Hassan 1953, Marasti 1973, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Acrobrochus, Giraliathyris, Gurlarnella, Liothyrella, Maltaia, Pliothyrina, Pycnobrochus, Rhytisoria

Subtaxa: Terebratula (Waldheimia) Terebratula aequalis Terebratula ampulla Terebratula anatina Terebratula arabilis Terebratula bartonensis Terebratula bipartita Terebratula birdlipensis Terebratula bisuffarcinata Terebratula brevirostris Terebratula bronni Terebratula bukowskii Terebratula bussoni Terebratula calabra Terebratula campaniensis Terebratula coahuilensis Terebratula cogidumni Terebratula coreyi Terebratula crassa Terebratula djeffarae Terebratula doueensis Terebratula durrelli Terebratula flemingii Terebratula fragilis Terebratula furciliensis Terebratula gesneri Terebratula gomesi Terebratula gortanii Terebratula grossulus Terebratula hannana Terebratula hoernesi Terebratula intervallata Terebratula italica Terebratula kanei Terebratula kemenczeiensis Terebratula kittlii Terebratula lacunosa Terebratula laczkoi Terebratula lamberti Terebratula lamellosa Terebratula lapichensis Terebratula laricimontana Terebratula latissima Terebratula liscaviensis Terebratula liusa Terebratula macrescens Terebratula marbachensis Terebratula marylandica Terebratula matmatensis Terebratula maxima Terebratula minuta Terebratula moseleyi Terebratula movelierensis Terebratula neglecta Terebratula pachydentata Terebratula pectunculus Terebratula perforata Terebratula phillipsii Terebratula praecox Terebratula pseudoscillae Terebratula quinqueplicata Terebratula ranieri Terebratula retrocarinata Terebratula rulliacensis Terebratula salvatoris Terebratula scillae Terebratula seccoi Terebratula semicostata Terebratula sillimani Terebratula sinuosa Terebratula siracusana Terebratula sphenoidalis Terebratula spinosa Terebratula spondylodes Terebratula sturi Terebratula sturii Terebratula styriaca Terebratula suborbicularis Terebratula subturgidula Terebratula superstes Terebratula suspecta Terebratula suttonensis Terebratula tamaulipana Terebratula taurolata Terebratula tenniensis Terebratula terebratula Terebratula tetragona Terebratula thurmanni Terebratula transversa Terebratula trifonovi Terebratula trigona Terebratula unguiculus Terebratula veszpremica Terebratula vitrea Terebratula wittnichi Terebratula wyvilli

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (19 collections)

• Pliocene of Algeria (12), Greece (3), Italy (7), Morocco (2), Spain (15), the United Kingdom (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), United States (2: Alaska)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Austria (3), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (9), Greece (1), Hungary (18), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Malta (2), Poland (12), Romania (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (10), Ukraine (1), United States (1: California)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)

• Eocene of Australia (8), France (10), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: North Carolina, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Maryland)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Antarctica (2), Colombia (1), France (16), Germany (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (3), Mexico (8), New Zealand (4), Poland (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (16), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: California, New Jersey)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (34), Egypt (3), Ethiopia (11), France (26), Germany (17), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), India (9), Indonesia (4), Italy (14), Japan (1), Madagascar (5), New Zealand (4), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (21), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (3), Spain (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tunisia (27), the United Kingdom (7), Yemen (2)

• Triassic of Austria (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (11), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), East Timor (1), Germany (3), Hungary (7), Indonesia (2), Italy (25), New Zealand (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (11: Alaska, California)

• Permian of Australia (2)

Total: 532 collections including 660 occurrences

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