Turonia cerebriformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuroniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
4 occurrences of Turonia cerebriformis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turonia cerebriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turonia cerebriformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turonia cerebriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
343 taxa- Heterostinia obliqua3 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites2 sites
- Aulaxinia fallax2 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera2 sites
- Callopegma acaule2 sites
- Craterella auricula2 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus2 sites
- Leptophragma micropora2 sites
- Plinthosella squamosa2 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus2 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora2 sites
- Acrochordonia auricula1 site
- Acrochordonia ramosa1 site
- Amphilectella piriformis1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Amphiura plana1 site
- Amphorometra conoidea1 site
- Amphorometra rugiana1 site
- Andreaea hexagonalis1 site
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus1 site
- Applinocrinus cretaceus1 site
- Aspidochirotida1 site
- Asteriidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turonia cerebriformis, 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
4 references- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
- Spongien aus der weißen Schreibkreide (Unteres Maastricht) der Insel Rügen (Ostsee) [Sponges from the White Chalk (Lower Maastrichtian) of the island of Rügen (Baltic Sea)]1
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Turonia cerebriformis 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 Turonia cerebriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turonia cerebriformis 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 itTuronia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1910