Turritella woodsi

Turritella woodsi

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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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 12 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 30 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–2.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.5–875 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37.71 Mya5.333 Mya49 Mya875 ka

30 occurrences of Turritella woodsi 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

30 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

5 formations

Otuma — 13.80°S, 76.35°WOtuma — 15.04°S, 74.97°WOtuma — 13.86°S, 76.28°WOtuma — 13.99°S, 76.24°WOtuma — 14.45°S, 75.93°WOtuma — 15.80°S, 73.44°WOtuma — 14.48°S, 75.97°WParacas — 14.18°S, 76.12°WParacas — 13.80°S, 76.35°WParacas — 15.14°S, 74.96°WParacas — 13.87°S, 76.28°WCamana — 16.70°S, 72.45°WCamana — 15.94°S, 73.32°WCamana — 15.04°S, 74.97°WChilcatay — 14.66°S, 75.33°WChilcatay — 15.03°S, 74.98°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°W

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

Turritella woodsi and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Turritella woodsi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Turritella woodsi, 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

7 references

Each of the 30 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 content1

Picture of Turritella woodsi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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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. Lisson 1925