Turritella cooperi

Turritella cooperi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
symmetrical turretsnailPBDB
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 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 14 of 199 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 84 of 199 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 100 of 199 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 199 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 19 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 21 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 27 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 48 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

199 occurrences of Turritella cooperi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

199 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

19 formations

Pico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.74°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.45°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.83°N, 120.50°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.77°N, 118.31°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.45°WJacalitos — 36.03°N, 120.38°WEtchegoin — 36.09°N, 120.40°WEtchegoin — 36.95°N, 120.16°WEtchegoin — 36.00°N, 120.27°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.30°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Turritella cooperi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turritella cooperi and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turritella cooperi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 149 sites for Turritella cooperi, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

39 references

Each of the 199 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. 27 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 content1

Picture of Turritella cooperi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Turritella cooperi 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1864