Turbonilla (Mormula)

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 27 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Turbonilla (Mormula) 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

27 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

11 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EUçarsu — 40.66°N, 39.90°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°EPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Turbonilla (Mormula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbonilla (Mormula) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turbonilla (Mormula) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Turbonilla (Mormula), 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

13 references

Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Turbonilla (Mormula) 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 Turbonilla (Mormula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turbonilla (Mormula) 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 itTurbonilla through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams 1864)