Tornatella

Tornatella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GastropodaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199.5 Mya11.63 Mya205 Mya1 Mya

9 occurrences of Tornatella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

9 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

4 formations

Mergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°EDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°E

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The named rock units Tornatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tornatella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Tornatella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tornatella, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 Tornatella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tornatella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGastropoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816