Turbonopsis shumardii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurbonopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Turbonopsis shumardii on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Columbus Limestone Formation · Columbus Group4
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The named rock units Turbonopsis shumardii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turbonopsis shumardii and its relatives
DevonianWhere Turbonopsis shumardii and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Bellerophon pelops4 sites
- Ptychomphalina lucina4 sites
- Hoareicardia cunea3 sites
- Platyceras carinatum2 sites
- Pleuronotus decewi2 sites
- Acanthonema newberryi1 site
- Bellerophon newberryi1 site
- Bembexia adjutor1 site
- Coelocaulus desiderata1 site
- Elasmonema bellatula1 site
- Elasmonema lichas1 site
- Hormotomina maia1 site
- Isonema depressum1 site
- Naticopsis aequistriata1 site
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae1 site
- Platyceras cymbium1 site
- Stylonema robusta1 site
- Viaphacops cristatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turbonopsis shumardii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Turbonopsis shumardii 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 Turbonopsis shumardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turbonopsis shumardii 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurbonopsis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1879)