Turritella robusta
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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 66 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
18 occurrences of Turritella robusta 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
18 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
3 formations
- Redding Formation15
- Zorritos Formation1
- Pinos Formation · Valle Group1
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The named rock units Turritella robusta 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 robusta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turritella robusta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Actaeonella oviformis15 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica14 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana12 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis12 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata11 sites
- Biplica isoplicata11 sites
- Carota mitraeformis11 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus11 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli10 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana9 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida8 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina7 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida7 sites
- Liocium punctatum7 sites
- Acteon politus6 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia6 sites
- Turritella hearni6 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)5 sites
- Acteonella frazierensis4 sites
- Atresius liratus4 sites
- Nerita salsa4 sites
- Tenea4 sites
- Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum4 sites
- Yezoites puerculus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Turritella robusta, 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
4 references- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California15
- New Cretaceous cerithiform gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America1
- The Paleontology of the Zorritos Formation of the North Peruvian Oil Fields1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
Each of the 18 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 content2
Picture of Turritella robusta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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. (Gabb 1864)