Turbinolia

Turbinolia is a genus of corals belonging to the family Turbinoliidae.

Turbinolia

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · 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
TurbinoliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 156 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 156 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 156 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 141 of 156 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 156 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 156 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 156 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 20 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 25 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 59 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 18 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–8.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100.5 Mya11.63 Mya115 Mya5 Mya

156 occurrences of Turbinolia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

156 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

50 formations

Lisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 32.10°N, 88.85°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.15°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.95°WCook Mountain — 32.60°N, 93.28°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 31.48°N, 94.35°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.50°N, 87.80°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WWemmel — 50.90°N, 4.30°EWemmel — 50.88°N, 4.20°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°ELede — 50.95°N, 3.98°ELede — 51.17°N, 3.33°ELede — 50.82°N, 4.33°EGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.88°WRed Bluff — 31.92°N, 88.45°WRed Bluff — 31.80°N, 88.70°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WLa Jolla — 32.78°N, 117.18°WFaluns de Bois-Gouët — 47.49°N, 1.58°WMaldegem — 50.90°N, 4.38°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.43°EAalter — 51.17°N, 3.33°E

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The named rock units Turbinolia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinolia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turbinolia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Turbinolia, 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

43 references

Each of the 156 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. 31 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 Turbinolia

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turbinolia 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 itTurbinoliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816