Turritella planispira

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TurritellaPBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella

Life habit

semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella

Motility

facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella

Vision

limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

• Oligocene25%
• Pliocene75%

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.

Where Turritella planispira and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Abra (Abra) prismatica2 sites
• Abra alba2 sites
• Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
• Arca lactea2 sites
• Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa2 sites
• Artemis lincta2 sites
• Astarte digitaria2 sites
• Astarte triangularis2 sites
• Barnea (Barnea) cylindrica2 sites
• Calliostoma zizyphinum2 sites
• Cardita corbis2 sites
• Cardita scalaris2 sites
• Cardita senilis2 sites
• Cardium2 sites
• Cardium strigilliferum2 sites
• Caryocorbula striata2 sites
• Cerithium granosum2 sites
• Clavatula cancellata2 sites
• Clavatula costata2 sites
• Clavatula laevigata2 sites
• Clavatula mitrula2 sites
• Cochlodesma2 sites
• Corbula2 sites
• Diarmaidia bidentata2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turritella planispira, 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.

• The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South AfricaRuddock, 1966 · Sedimentary Basins of the African Coasts · book/book chapter1
• Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]Meszaros, 1957 · Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie · serial monograph1
• Wood, 1882Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca comparing Testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Univalves and Bivalves · book/book chapter1
• Wood, 1848A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves · book/book chapter1

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. 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.

What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1842