Turricula nelliae

Turricula nelliae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

Turricula nelliae

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
TurriculaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11.63 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Turricula nelliae 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

9 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

5 formations

Togopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°E

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The named rock units Turricula nelliae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turricula nelliae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turricula nelliae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turricula nelliae, 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

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Turricula nelliae

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turricula nelliae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurricula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1877)