Turonia constricta
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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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Turonia constricta 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Turonia constricta 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 constricta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turonia constricta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
265 taxa- Amphithelion cupula3 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa3 sites
- Craterella auricula3 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri3 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus3 sites
- Homalodoriana tuberosa3 sites
- Jereica polystoma3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Pachinion scriptum3 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa3 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli3 sites
- Verruculina tenuis3 sites
- Amphilectella piriformis2 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata2 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites2 sites
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus2 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera2 sites
- Aulosoma radiciformis2 sites
- Callicylix (Cyclostigma) acinosa2 sites
- Callopegma acaule2 sites
- Chonella tenuis2 sites
- Coeloptychium agaricoides2 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum2 sites
- Coeloptychium incisum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turonia constricta, 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- 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]2
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]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 constricta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turonia constricta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itTuronia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878