Propebela turricula
Propebela turricula, common name the turreted conelet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
H. Zell · 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
- PropebelaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Propebela turricula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Propebela turricula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Propebela turricula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Propebela turricula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
360 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae4 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Astarte sulcata4 sites
- Buccinum undatum4 sites
- Clausinella fasciata4 sites
- Hiatella4 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) balthica4 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria4 sites
- Mytilus edulis4 sites
- Turritella communis4 sites
- Zirfaea crispata4 sites
- Arca lactea3 sites
- Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa3 sites
- Arctica islandica3 sites
- Astarte compressa3 sites
- Astarte elliptica3 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus3 sites
- Cardita senilis3 sites
- Epitonium greenlandicum3 sites
- Glycymeris glycymeris3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) obliqua3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis3 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) modiolus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Propebela turricula, 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- Wood, 18484
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California1
- The Mollusca of the Wexford Gravels (Pleistocene), South-East Ireland1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Propebela turricula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Propebela turricula 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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What may have been alongside itPropebela through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)