Turritella ocoyana topangaensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turritella ocoyanaPBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
4 occurrences of Turritella ocoyana topangaensis on record. 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
4 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 ocoyana topangaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Turritella inezana2 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis1 site
- Chlamys sespeensis1 site
- Conus1 site
- Lucinisca nuttalli1 site
- Lyropecten miguelensis1 site
- Macoma nasuta1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Rapana vaquerosensis imperalis1 site
- Tagelus clarki1 site
- Turritella temblorensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turritella ocoyana topangaensis, 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- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands3
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1

Picture of Turritella ocoyana topangaensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Turritella ocoyana topangaensis 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 ocoyana through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam 1941