Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli
Searched as Turritella gonostoma hemphilli. The Paleobiology Database treats Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli as the accepted name.

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · 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
- Turritella vanvleckiPBDB
- 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 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 vanvlecki hemphilli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Turritella cooperi5 sites
- Caesia moraniana4 sites
- Calyptraea filosa4 sites
- Cancellaria hemphilli4 sites
- Chione (Anomalocardia) fernandoensis4 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina4 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa4 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana4 sites
- Saccella taphria4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) perrini4 sites
- Terebra (Strioterebrum) martini4 sites
- Californiconus californicus3 sites
- Callianax pedroana3 sites
- Crepidula onyx3 sites
- Elaeocyma empyrosia3 sites
- Euclia tritonidea3 sites
- Hippocampocardia barbarensis3 sites
- Kelletia kelletii3 sites
- Larkinia camuloensis3 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum3 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana3 sites
- Pomaulax gradata3 sites
- Pusio humerosus3 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella vanvlecki hemphilli 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 itTurritella vanvlecki through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Applin 1920)