Turritella tampae
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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 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
21 occurrences of Turritella tampae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
21 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
5 formations
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group12
- Flint River Formation4
- Belgrade Formation3
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- River Bend Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella tampae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella tampae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turritella tampae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
507 taxa- Venericardia (Glyptoactis) serricosta7 sites
- Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) amphora6 sites
- Lyropecten6 sites
- Phacoides wacissanus6 sites
- Venericardia nodifera6 sites
- Anadara5 sites
- Artena5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Cerithium5 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys)5 sites
- Cyrena5 sites
- Murex5 sites
- Pleurodonte5 sites
- Pyrazisinus campanulatus5 sites
- Sinum imperforatum5 sites
- Venus5 sites
- Anomalocardia4 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Donax idoneus4 sites
- Ecphora tampaensis4 sites
- Lamarcka imbricata4 sites
- Miltha hillsboroensis4 sites
- Modiolus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Turritella tampae, 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- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones12
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America4
- A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River4
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Turritella tampae 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 tampae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella tampae 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 through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heilprin 1887