Torcula

Torcula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurritellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 81 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 81 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 81 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 58 of 81 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 81 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 81 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 24 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

81 occurrences of Torcula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

81 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

23 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WGatun — 9.39°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.98°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSaint Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°EPeace River — 27.18°N, 81.80°WCoffee Mill Hammock — 26.73°N, 81.51°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WBrightseat — 38.97°N, 76.85°WRaysor Marl — 33.10°N, 80.67°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.19°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Torcula 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.

Torcula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Torcula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Torcula, 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

19 references

Each of the 81 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. 7 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 Torcula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Torcula 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1847)