Turritella merriami brevitabulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turritella merriamiPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Turritella merriami brevitabulata 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turritella merriami brevitabulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella merriami brevitabulata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Turritella merriami brevitabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Brachysphingus mammilatus1 site
- Bulbifusus californicus1 site
- Crassatella meganosensis1 site
- Cristispira pugetensis1 site
- Dentalium cooperi1 site
- Ficopsis meganosensis1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus)1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis1 site
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis1 site
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis1 site
- Pseudocardium meganosensis1 site
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus1 site
- Turritella meganosensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turritella merriami brevitabulata, 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
2 references- Paleocene mollusks from the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province - a significant new occurrence on the North Pacific Rim1
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Turritella merriami brevitabulata 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 merriami brevitabulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella merriami brevitabulata 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 merriami through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam and Turner 1937