Turritella obruta
No picture of Turritella obruta 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 obruta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Turritella obruta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group10
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Turritella obruta 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 obruta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella obruta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
483 taxa- Callista (Callista) perovata10 sites
- Haustator carinata10 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda10 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis9 sites
- Ancilla staminea9 sites
- Athleta petrosa9 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum9 sites
- Bullata semen9 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea9 sites
- Crepidula lirata9 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina9 sites
- Glycymeris staminea9 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella9 sites
- Lirodiscus tellinoides9 sites
- Mesalia vetusta9 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata9 sites
- Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva9 sites
- Bathytormus protextus8 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii8 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus8 sites
- Costacallista mortoni8 sites
- Lucina8 sites
- Parmicorbula gibbosa8 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Turritella obruta, 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- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Turritella obruta 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 obruta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella obruta 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1833