Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Strombus (Laevistrombus)PBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
- Malua Formation · Matamaute Group1
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
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The named rock units Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Aesopus1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) biformis1 site
- Anaitis calophylla1 site
- Annulaturris undosa1 site
- Aquillus gemmatus1 site
- Aquillus pilearis1 site
- Aquillus rubecula1 site
- Aquillus thersites1 site
- Arca1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana1 site
- Bursa1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Callista1 site
- Canarium1 site
- Cancellaria menadensis1 site
- Cantharidus1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Cerithium citrinum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella, 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
3 references- Age refinement of the Sonde molluscan fauna, East Java, Indonesia1
- Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides1
- Mollusken aus posttertiären Schichten von Celebes1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Strombus (Laevistrombus) turturella 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStrombus (Laevistrombus) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)