Turritella peninsularis
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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 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.
13 occurrences of Turritella peninsularis 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous31%
- Paleocene69%
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
6 formations
- San Francisquito Formation3
- Santa Susana Formation3
- Rosario Formation2
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Sepultura Formation1
- Martinez Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella peninsularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella peninsularis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Turritella peninsularis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Pyropsis gabbi3 sites
- Turritella reversa3 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis2 sites
- Anapachydiscus peninsularis2 sites
- Baculites occidentalis2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii2 sites
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi2 sites
- Didymoceras vancouverensis2 sites
- Neodesmoceras catarinae2 sites
- Propustularia kemperae2 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa1 site
- Acmaea martinezensis1 site
- Acrilla (Undiscala) lolakensis1 site
- Anchura baptos1 site
- Anglonautilus catarinae1 site
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)1 site
- Baculites anceps1 site
- Baculites lomaensis1 site
- Bernaya1 site
- Biplica obliqua1 site
- Calva (Calva) peninsularis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Turritella peninsularis, 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- Turritella zonation across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, California5
- Cretaceous geology of Lower California2
- First report of Oniscidia Mörch, 1852 (Neogastropoda, Harpidae) in the northeast Pacific fossil record and paleobiogeographic review of the genus1
- Fossil gastropods from the Late Paleocene Sepultura Formation, Baja California, Mexico1
- Paleontological evidence of the Campanian to Early Paleocene paleogeography of Baja California1
- Review of bivalve genus Plicatula from Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic strata of California and Baja California1
- New reports of the large gastropod Campanile from the Paleocene and Eocene of the Pacific Coast of North America1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
Each of the 13 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 peninsularis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella peninsularis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Anderson and Hanna 1935