Chemnitzia

Turbonilla is a large genus of ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Chemnitzia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyramidellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 86 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 86 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 86 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 86 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 86 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 86 occurrencesPliocene — about 23 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 86 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Chemnitzia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

86 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

36 formations

Dry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WDiscovery Point — 29.09°N, 118.25°WSakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°EMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WHookton — 40.98°N, 124.11°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WCalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°EReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°EGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WWestbury — 50.97°N, 2.96°WRifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°W

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The named rock units Chemnitzia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chemnitzia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Chemnitzia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Chemnitzia, 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

42 references

Each of the 86 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. 30 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 Chemnitzia

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

No 3D scan of Chemnitzia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1840)