Turritella nodosa
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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
9 occurrences of Turritella nodosa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Turritella nodosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella nodosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turritella nodosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Pseudocucullaea lens4 sites
- Turritella alternans4 sites
- Cataceramus bantu3 sites
- Gymnarus fraasi3 sites
- Plicatula locardi3 sites
- Strepsidura gracilis3 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis3 sites
- Volutomorpha similis3 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta2 sites
- Anomalofusus buchi2 sites
- Bizarrus incertus2 sites
- Calliotropis nilssoni2 sites
- Cardita beaumonti2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cardium subperobliquum2 sites
- Fusus climacodes2 sites
- Granocardium kruschi2 sites
- Gyrodes brunsvicensis2 sites
- Helicaulax latealata2 sites
- Inoceramus niger2 sites
- Inoperna flagellifera2 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) pseudohoernesi2 sites
- Pachydiscus stallauensis2 sites
- Plicatula decipiens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turritella nodosa, 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
5 references- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria3
- Gastropoda aus dem Mittelsanton (Oberkreide) von Lengede (Niedersachsen)2
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons2
- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
Each of the 9 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 nodosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Turritella nodosa 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1841