Megasurcula carpenteriana

Megasurcula carpenteriana, also known as Carpenter's turrid, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, a family previously lumped with others collectively known as turrids. This species occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The species was named in honor of Philip Pearsall Carpenter.

Megasurcula carpenteriana

Ed Bierman · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Carpenter's turridPBDB
Sits inside
MegasurculaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 64 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 35 of 64 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Megasurcula carpenteriana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

64 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

12 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.45°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WEtchegoin — 36.09°N, 120.50°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.45°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Megasurcula carpenteriana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megasurcula carpenteriana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Megasurcula carpenteriana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Megasurcula carpenteriana, 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

26 references

Each of the 64 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. 14 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 Megasurcula carpenteriana

Credit
Ed Bierman
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megasurcula carpenteriana 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itMegasurcula through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)