Optoturris

Optoturris is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea, currently unassigned to a family. First occurring in the Eocene, the genus is known to have lived until at least the Middle Miocene. Three of the species are found in Miocene fossil beds of Australia, with other fossils being found in eastern Russia and Japan.

Optoturris

Auckland War Memorial Museum · CC BY 4.0 · 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
TurridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya41.5 Mya15.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Optoturris on record. 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

4 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

2 formations

Rateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°E

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The named rock units Optoturris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Optoturris, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Optoturris

Credit
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.