Turritella trilira

Turritella trilira

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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 28 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 206 of 206 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 206 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 26 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 26 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 26 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 26 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 26 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 26 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

206 occurrences of Turritella trilira 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

206 occurrences

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

20 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.50°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 85.00°WEscondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.16°N, 99.48°WEscondido — 29.08°N, 100.00°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.55°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WEscondido — 28.60°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WRipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 95.60°WNacatoch Sand — 31.31°N, 96.90°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.85°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WPeedee — 34.03°N, 79.82°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.91°N, 79.45°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WCoffee Sand — 34.56°N, 88.45°WCoffee Sand — 34.43°N, 88.42°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.93°N, 88.52°WCoffee Sand — 32.62°N, 89.53°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNeylandville Marl — 31.48°N, 96.73°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WMexcala — 18.16°N, 98.94°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°W

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The named rock units Turritella trilira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Turritella trilira and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Turritella trilira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,003 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Turritella trilira, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

15 references

Each of the 206 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 trilira

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1860)