Turricula piercei

Turricula piercei

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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 least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13.82 Mya7.246 Mya16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

23 occurrences of Turricula piercei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

23 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

4 formations

Round Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 36.02°N, 120.88°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WRound Mountain — 35.45°N, 118.85°W

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The named rock units Turricula piercei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Turricula piercei and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Turricula piercei, 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 23 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 piercei

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTurricula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1909)