Tornatellaea darwini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TornatellaeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tornatellaea darwini on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tornatellaea darwini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tornatellaea darwini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tornatellaea darwini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Colposigma euthenia6 sites
- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis6 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi5 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis5 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani5 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum4 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi4 sites
- Conomitra iredalei4 sites
- Cucullaea raea4 sites
- Eucrassatella wilckensi4 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica4 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi4 sites
- Mactra irizari4 sites
- Scaphander (Kaitoa) duseni4 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos4 sites
- Agatha scotti3 sites
- Aulacomya anderssoni3 sites
- Australoneilo rossi3 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani3 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki3 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni3 sites
- Neoguraleus (Fusiguraleus) rinaldii3 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova3 sites
- Ostrea antarctica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tornatellaea darwini, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tornatellaea darwini 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 Tornatellaea darwini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornatellaea darwini 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 itTornatellaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992