Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi

Searched as Crassispira woodringi. The Paleobiology Database treats Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi as the accepted name.

Crassispira woodringi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in Northern Peru; age range: 40.4 to 37.2 Ma. The species is named in honor of Wendell P. Woodring.

Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrassispiraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya23.04 Mya41.5 Mya15.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi 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

2 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

2 formations

Talara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°E

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The named rock units Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi and its relatives

Eocene

Where Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi

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No 3D scan of Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itCrassispira through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dey 1961