Tornatellaea

Tornatellaea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 150 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 256 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 256 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 256 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 45 of 256 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 37 of 256 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 91 of 256 occurrencesEocene — about 67 of 256 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 256 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–162 Mya — about 6 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–133 Mya — about 26 occurrences133–127 Mya — about 5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 5 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 32 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 54 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 25 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 19 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 27 occurrences35–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya33.9 Mya196 Mya24 Mya

256 occurrences of Tornatellaea on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

256 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

59 formations

Kincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.32°N, 96.72°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.96°N, 88.07°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.59°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 29.34°N, 98.56°WWills Point — 30.59°N, 97.30°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.74°N, 88.40°WCerro Dorotea — 51.30°S, 72.32°WCerro Dorotea — 51.58°S, 72.33°WCerro Dorotea — 51.54°S, 72.34°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.03°WPorters Creek — 32.08°N, 87.40°WPorters Creek — 34.73°N, 88.95°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EMidway — 26.10°N, 99.62°WMidway — 26.30°N, 99.57°WClayton — 32.13°N, 87.40°WClayton — 31.92°N, 87.08°WClayton — 35.23°N, 88.83°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WHückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°ECorsicana Marl — 30.26°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°W

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The named rock units Tornatellaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tornatellaea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Tornatellaea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

3,675 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 187 sites for Tornatellaea, 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

76 references

Each of the 256 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. 64 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 Tornatellaea

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Conrad 1860