Tornatellaea vacavillensis
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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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tornatellaea vacavillensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group2
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The named rock units Tornatellaea vacavillensis 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 vacavillensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tornatellaea vacavillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Nuculanidae2 sites
- Propeamussium interradiatum2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei2 sites
- Acharax dunnensis1 site
- Acteon vacavillensis1 site
- Ancilla meganosensis1 site
- Ancilla vacavillensis1 site
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)1 site
- Bittium (Semibittium) quadricingulatum1 site
- Cadulus (Cadulus) meganosensis1 site
- Cardiomya dolabraeformis1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Cristellaria kemperi1 site
- Cristellaria vacavillensis1 site
- Cyclammina clarki1 site
- Cylichnina tantilla1 site
- Dentalina pauperata1 site
- Dentalium stramineum1 site
- Dentalium vacavillensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tornatellaea vacavillensis, 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- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon2
- A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Tornatellaea vacavillensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Tornatellaea vacavillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornatellaea vacavillensis 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 itTornatellaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Palmer 1923)