Tornatellaea impressa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TornatellaeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Tornatellaea impressa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
10 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tornatellaea impressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tornatellaea impressa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tornatellaea impressa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Euspira popenoei7 sites
- Paleopsephaea sacramentica7 sites
- Cantharus occidentalis6 sites
- Igonoia stewarti6 sites
- Latiala heliaca6 sites
- Biplica isoplicata5 sites
- Tessarolax trinalis5 sites
- Turritella xylina3 sites
- Ampullina stantoni2 sites
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) barryae2 sites
- Puzosia puma2 sites
- Acteon politus1 site
- Ampullina mona1 site
- Clinura anassa1 site
- Cylichna andersoni1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) argonauticum1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum1 site
- Glycymeris pacifica1 site
- Gyrodes onensis1 site
- Igonoia onoensis1 site
- Lembulus translucidus1 site
- Protocardia translucida1 site
- Pseudhelicoceras1 site
- Puzosia (Anapuzosia) tucuyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tornatellaea impressa, 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- Mollusca of the Cretaceous Bald Hills Formation of California9
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Tornatellaea impressa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Tornatellaea impressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornatellaea impressa 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTornatellaea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)