Turritella (Haustator) asperula

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HaustatorPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
5 occurrences of Turritella (Haustator) asperula on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Turritella (Haustator) asperula 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.
Turritella (Haustator) asperula and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turritella (Haustator) asperula and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Angaria1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anomia tenuistriata1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca biangula1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) ambiguus1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata1 site
- Bayania1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Botula1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Cardita (Venericardia) laurae1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cardium (Orthocardium) gratum1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Cassis mammillaris1 site
- Cepatia cepacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Turritella (Haustator) asperula, 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- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)2
- Oligocene History of the Çardak-Dazkırı Sub-basin (Denizli, SW Turkey): Integrated Molluscan and Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy1
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata1
Each of the 5 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 Turritella (Haustator) asperula
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella (Haustator) asperula 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 itHaustator through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brogniart 1823)