Turbinella episoma

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

8 occurrences of Turbinella episoma on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

8 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

4 formations

Nari — 30.17°N, 67.00°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°EQom — 31.52°N, 52.74°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°ELakhish — 31.91°N, 34.92°E

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The named rock units Turbinella episoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinella episoma and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Turbinella episoma and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turbinella episoma, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Turbinella episoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turbinella episoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turbinella episoma 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1861)