Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata
Not Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata. This is Turbonilla senistriata (Wood, 1877), a relative — both are Pyramidellidae.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
279 taxa- Turbonilla (Pyrgolidium) internodula4 sites
- Nassarius (Tritonella) consociatus3 sites
- Trivia (Trivia) coccinelloides3 sites
- Trophon muricatus3 sites
- Aclis ascaris2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Amyclina labiosa2 sites
- Anisocycla nitidissima2 sites
- Asthenotoma2 sites
- Babylonella2 sites
- Bela2 sites
- Brachystomia2 sites
- Buccinum undatum2 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis2 sites
- Capulacmaea kalloensis2 sites
- Capulus ungaricus2 sites
- Capulus unguis2 sites
- Cerithiopsis subulata2 sites
- Cerithiopsis tubercularis2 sites
- Cerodrillia2 sites
- Cirsotrema2 sites
- Colus2 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna) cylindracea2 sites
- Cythara (Mangelia)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata, 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
3 references- Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) - Part 2. Caenogastropoda: Potamididae-Tornidae2
- Gastropodes du Diestien, du Scaldisien et du Merxemien de la Belgique. 2ème Note1
- Wood, 18791
Each of the 4 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 Turbonilla senistriata (Wood, 1877)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurbonilla (Pyrgiscus) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1877)