Turritella samanensis
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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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Turritella samanensis 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
10 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
7 formations
- Lower Sandy Shales Formation2
- Talara Formation2
- Santa Rita Formation2
- Carbonera Formation1
- Saman Formation1
- Verdun Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella samanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella samanensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella samanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Architectonica sullana5 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana5 sites
- Turritella chira5 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Aturia peruviana4 sites
- Dorsanum lagunitensis4 sites
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi4 sites
- Agaronia3 sites
- Ampullina ortoni3 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Cerithiella3 sites
- Conus sauridens chiraensis3 sites
- Cornulina3 sites
- Doliocassis samanica3 sites
- Glyptostyla lagunitensis3 sites
- Mactra3 sites
- Ostrea samanensis3 sites
- Peruluta mancorensis3 sites
- Pitar3 sites
- Pseudoliva3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Amotapas2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancillarina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turritella samanensis, 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- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca4
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Turritella samanensis 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 samanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella samanensis 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928