Turbinella

Turbinella is a genus of very large sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Turbinellinae of the family Turbinellidae.

Turbinella

Luis Carlos · CC BY 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
TurbinellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 234 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 234 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 234 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 234 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 130 of 234 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 234 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 234 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 12 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 34 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 29 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 24 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

234 occurrences of Turbinella 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

234 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

60 formations

Jimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 18.47°N, 71.05°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.40°N, 93.71°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WTuira — 8.35°N, 78.07°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCulebra — 9.06°N, 79.66°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.92°N, 70.00°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WTalara — 4.58°S, 81.27°WTalara — 4.52°S, 81.30°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WGargorre — 10.48°N, 50.68°EGargorre — 10.37°N, 50.95°EGargorre — 10.45°N, 50.68°EFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WGaj — 25.37°N, 67.42°EGaj — 25.56°N, 67.90°EGaj — 25.50°N, 69.00°EMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WFort Thompson — 26.15°N, 80.48°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Turbinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turbinella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Turbinella, 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

66 references

Each of the 234 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. 54 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 content2

Picture of Turbinella

Credit
Luis Carlos
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itTurbinellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799