Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turbo (Marmarostoma)PBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
33 occurrences of Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
33 occurrences- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene86%
- Holocene6%
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
6 formations
- Aldabra Limestone Formation4
- Dayrell Formation · Herald Group2
- Bundera Calcarenite Formation1
- Mariana Limestone Formation1
- Tanapag Limestone Formation1
- Boat Cove Formation · Herald Group1
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The named rock units Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Conus2 sites
- Pyrene testudinaria2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora humilis1 site
- Acropora hyacinthus1 site
- Acropora robusta1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Astralium1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) amygdalumtostum1 site
- Botula1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium (Cerithium) novaehollandiae1 site
- Cerithium echinatum1 site
- Chama1 site
- Cominella1 site
- Conus lividus1 site
- Coralliophila1 site
- Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis1 site
- Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola1 site
- Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus, 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
8 references- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast12
- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands7
- Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll4
- Recent and fossil marine Mollusca of Tongatabu4
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands3
- Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea1
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Geology and geomorphology of Henderson Island1
Each of the 33 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 Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Josh/Joshua
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus 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 itTurbo (Marmarostoma) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)