Turbinellidae

Turbinellidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Members of this family are predators.

Turbinellidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 114 of 512 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 512 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 57 of 512 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 512 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 176 of 512 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 74 of 512 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 512 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 31 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 45 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 15 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 25 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 20 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 11 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 10 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 30 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 56 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 25 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 22 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 30 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 58 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 69 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

512 occurrences of Turbinellidae 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

512 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

113 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 34.49°N, 89.01°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 18.47°N, 71.05°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°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°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°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°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.92°N, 70.00°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°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°WCulebra — 9.06°N, 79.66°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WFort Thompson — 26.15°N, 80.48°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Turbinellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turbinellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,422 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 278 sites for Turbinellidae, and this reads 240 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

124 references

Each of the 512 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. 112 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 content1

Picture of Turbinellidae

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turbinellidae 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.

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 itTurbinelloidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840