Pseudotorinia

Pseudotorinia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Architectonicidae, the staircase shells or sundials.

Pseudotorinia

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
ArchitectonicidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Architectonicidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 66 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 66 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 66 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences61.66 Mya774 ka67 Mya0 Mya

66 occurrences of Pseudotorinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

66 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

32 formations

Escudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EPalau Limestone — 7.37°N, 134.58°EYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Pseudotorinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudotorinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudotorinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,874 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Pseudotorinia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

25 references

Each of the 66 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. 13 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 Pseudotorinia

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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. (Sacco 1892)