Turritella (Torquesia)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurritellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 103 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 103 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 103 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 103 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 103 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 103 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 103 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 103 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 7 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 14 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences119.57 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

103 occurrences of Turritella (Torquesia) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

103 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

29 formations

Ameki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.94°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 30.17°EGault — 51.08°N, 1.18°EGault — 50.73°N, 2.90°WBirket Qaroun — 29.30°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.17°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EChalk Marl — 51.20°N, 2.18°WChalk Marl — 51.25°N, 1.92°WManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WManantial — 11.11°N, 72.68°WHückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°EKurkur — 25.00°N, 30.75°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EMokattam — 28.00°N, 30.75°EAl Faidiyah — 32.69°N, 21.91°ESoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WBrightseat — 38.97°N, 76.85°WBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°E

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The named rock units Turritella (Torquesia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turritella (Torquesia) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turritella (Torquesia) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,058 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Turritella (Torquesia), 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

40 references

Each of the 103 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Turritella (Torquesia) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turritella (Torquesia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turritella (Torquesia) 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 itTurritella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douvillé 1929)