Turritella andersoni comstockensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turritella andersoniPBDB
- 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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Turritella andersoni comstockensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Turritella andersoni comstockensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella andersoni comstockensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella andersoni comstockensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Turritella uvasana hendoni2 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi1 site
- Brachiodontes1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cardiomya comstockensis1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Conus remondii comstockensis1 site
- Crassatella uvasana matthewsoni1 site
- Cylichnina tantilla1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Eocernina hannibali1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1 site
- Pachycrommium clarki1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis1 site
- Polinices hornii1 site
- Ranellina pilsbryi1 site
- Solena (Eosolen) coosensis1 site
- Turritella buwaldana coosensis1 site
- Venericardia hornii calafia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turritella andersoni comstockensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Turritella andersoni comstockensis 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 andersoni comstockensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella andersoni comstockensis 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 andersoni through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turner 1938