Tudicla spirillus
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- TudiclaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Tudicla spirillus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous83%
- Paleocene17%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tudicla spirillus 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.
Tudicla spirillus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tudicla spirillus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Calliomphalus4 sites
- Cerithium4 sites
- Cuspidaria4 sites
- Natica cretacea4 sites
- Scaphella4 sites
- Aporrhais3 sites
- Barbatia geinitzi3 sites
- Columbellaria tuberculosa3 sites
- Cylichna faba3 sites
- Drepanocheilus3 sites
- Euthriofusus3 sites
- Goniomya3 sites
- Gyropleura3 sites
- Limatula3 sites
- Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus3 sites
- Nemocardium3 sites
- Nucula truncata3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Panopea3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Plagiostoma hoperi3 sites
- Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum3 sites
- Pseudolimea3 sites
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tudicla spirillus, 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- Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland5
- Marine Upper Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary deposits in West Greenland1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tudicla spirillus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tudicla spirillus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTudicla through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)