Pleurotoma cristata
No picture of Pleurotoma cristata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurotoma cristata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurrisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Pleurotoma cristata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
14 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group13
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Pleurotoma cristata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleurotoma cristata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pleurotoma cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
234 taxa- Scobinella caelata5 sites
- Agaronia mississippiensis4 sites
- Caricella demissa4 sites
- Pleuroliria4 sites
- Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) curvirostratus4 sites
- Terebra4 sites
- Turbinella wilsoni4 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) lima3 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis3 sites
- Bathytoma3 sites
- Conus sauridens3 sites
- Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis3 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense3 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)3 sites
- Levifusus3 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis3 sites
- Lyria mississippiensis3 sites
- Microsurcula3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum3 sites
- Panopea oblongata3 sites
- Pleurofusia3 sites
- Ringicula mississippiensis3 sites
- Scobinella3 sites
- Sconsia lintea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pleurotoma cristata, 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
4 references- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi9
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi3
- Hacobjan, 19741
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Pleurotoma cristata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurotoma cristata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurotoma cristata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurris through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)