Turbinella falconensis

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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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
39 occurrences of Turbinella falconensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
39 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Turbinella falconensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turbinella falconensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turbinella falconensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Cyclinella cyclica6 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis6 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum5 sites
- Conus molis5 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis4 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis4 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis4 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena4 sites
- Cymatophos4 sites
- Polystira barretti4 sites
- Sphaerocypraea wegeneri4 sites
- Turritella cocoditana4 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis3 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis3 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni3 sites
- Bivetiella dariena3 sites
- Chama berjadinensis3 sites
- Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana3 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Conus talis3 sites
- Hindsiclava consors3 sites
- Knefastia3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turbinella falconensis, 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
7 references- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia28
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).4
- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- A new species of Turbinella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pliocene of Mexico, with a revision of the geologic history of the line1
- The Tertiary geology and systematic paleontology (phylum Mollusca) of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia, South America1
- The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula1
Each of the 39 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 content1

Picture of Turbinella falconensis
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- iDigBio
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turbinella falconensis 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 itTurbinella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hodson 1931)