Paraturbo
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaturbinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Paraturbo on record, most of them in the Early 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation2
- Calcaires de Fiz Formation1
- Conglomérats de Bargy Formation1
- Atherfield Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Paraturbo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraturbo and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paraturbo and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
191 taxa- Natica4 sites
- Aporrhaidae3 sites
- Discoides3 sites
- Nummocalcar3 sites
- Plicatula3 sites
- Pseudolimea3 sites
- Avellana2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum2 sites
- Dicroloma2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Holaster2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites milletianus2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites plesiotypicus2 sites
- Isocardia2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Leymeriella2 sites
- Lichenopora (Semimulticavea)2 sites
- Lyelliceras2 sites
- Modiolus aequalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paraturbo, 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
2 references- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)4
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England1
Each of the 5 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 Paraturbo
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Paraturbo 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itParaturbinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1907