Turricula ochsneri

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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Turricula ochsneri on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Round Mountain Silt Formation9
- Olcese Formation2
- Vaqueros Formation2
- Round Mountain Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
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The named rock units Turricula ochsneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turricula ochsneri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turricula ochsneri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Antillophos posunculensis11 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus10 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) kerniana10 sites
- Nassarius (Catilon) arnoldi10 sites
- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis10 sites
- Turricula piercei10 sites
- Calyptraea filosa9 sites
- Pyramidella (Longchaeus) cooperi8 sites
- Turricula buwaldana8 sites
- Megasurcula howei7 sites
- Mitrella anchuela7 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni7 sites
- Bruclarkia barkeriana6 sites
- Crepidula rostralis6 sites
- Cylichna temblorensis6 sites
- Epitonium (Nitidiscala) tedfordi6 sites
- Mangelia (Notocytharella) kernensis6 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) posuncula6 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) alta6 sites
- Sinum scopulosum6 sites
- Terebra (Strioterebrum) stirtoni6 sites
- Turritella moodyi6 sites
- Balcis petrolia5 sites
- Cancellaria (Narona) birchi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Turricula ochsneri, 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- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California10
- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology2
- Neocene record in the Temblor Basin, California, and Neocene deposits of the San Juan District, San Luis Obispo County2
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
Each of the 15 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 Turricula ochsneri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Turricula ochsneri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTurricula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson and Martin 1914)