Turbinolia dickersoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurbinoliaPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
12 occurrences of Turbinolia dickersoni 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Bateque Formation1
- Falaises de Fresco Formation1
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group1
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group1
- Lodo Formation1
- Capay Formation1
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The named rock units Turbinolia dickersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turbinolia dickersoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turbinolia dickersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) decisa3 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata3 sites
- Turritella buwaldana3 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi2 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii2 sites
- Conus hornii2 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica2 sites
- Homalopoma wattsi2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Platytrochus merriami2 sites
- Tejonia moragai2 sites
- Turritella andersoni2 sites
- Acharax dunnensis1 site
- Acteon vacavillensis1 site
- Actinacis1 site
- Actinocyclina1 site
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Amblypygus (Paramblypygus) houphoueti1 site
- Ancilla meganosensis1 site
- Ancilla vacavillensis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillia batequensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Turbinolia dickersoni, 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
11 references- Corals from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of California and Oregon2
- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran1
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- Molluscan Paleontology of the Lower Eocene Maniobra Formation, Orocopia Mountains, Southern California1
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California1
- Études paléontologiques et géologiques sur le Falaises de Fresco (Côte d'Ivoire)1
- Turbinolia rosetta, a new coral species from the Paleocene of Alabama1
- Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast1
- Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Eocene of California1
- A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Turbinolia dickersoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turbinolia dickersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turbinolia dickersoni 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 itTurbinolia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nomland 1916