Turritella humerosa

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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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
25 occurrences of Turritella humerosa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
25 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
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group15
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group6
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group2
- Clayton Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella humerosa 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 humerosa and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Turritella humerosa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
315 taxa- Kapalmerella mortoni4 sites
- Cadulus3 sites
- Cucullaea3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Fusus3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Levifusus pagodiformis3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Polinices eminulus3 sites
- Toulminella alabamensis3 sites
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Athleta petrosa2 sites
- Bathytormus alaeformis2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Calyptraphorus2 sites
- Cucullaea gigantea2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Exilia pergracilis2 sites
- Falsifusus2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Fusus (Levifusus) trabeatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Turritella humerosa, 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
8 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda17
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- A new species of Pulvinites (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the upper Paleocene Paspotansa Member of the Aquia Formation in Virginia1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- The Midway Group of Texas1
- Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna1
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
- Contributions to the Eocene fauna of the Middle Atlantic slope1
Each of the 25 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. 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 humerosa
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella humerosa 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 through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1835