Turbinidae

Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a family of small to large marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.

Turbinidae

Takahashi · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 445 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1671 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 1671 occurrencesDevonian — about 15 of 1671 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 1671 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 1671 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1671 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 1671 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 84 of 1671 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 1671 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 1671 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 33 of 1671 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 135 of 1671 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 107 of 1671 occurrencesPaleocene — about 25 of 1671 occurrencesEocene — about 131 of 1671 occurrencesOligocene — about 55 of 1671 occurrencesMiocene — about 223 of 1671 occurrencesPliocene — about 225 of 1671 occurrencesPleistocene — about 552 of 1671 occurrences462–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–385 Mya — about 6 occurrences385–369 Mya — about 7 occurrences369–354 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences354–339 Mya — about 5 occurrences339–323 Mya — about 5 occurrences308–293 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–231 Mya — about 73 occurrences231–216 Mya — about 7 occurrences216–200 Mya — about 22 occurrences200–185 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–169 Mya — about 5 occurrences169–154 Mya — about 13 occurrences154–139 Mya — about 27 occurrences139–123 Mya — about 29 occurrences123–108 Mya — about 85 occurrences108–92 Mya — about 57 occurrences92–77 Mya — about 40 occurrences77–62 Mya — about 41 occurrences62–46 Mya — about 58 occurrences46–31 Mya — about 104 occurrences31–15 Mya — about 100 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 968 occurrences445.2 Mya11.7 ka462 Mya0 Mya

1,671 occurrences of Turbinidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1,671 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

343 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.98°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.62°N, 11.83°ECassian — 46.60°N, 12.26°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 39.83°N, 141.98°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.59°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 157.90°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WWaimanalo — 21.43°N, 158.18°WWaimanalo — 21.62°N, 158.07°WWaimanalo — 21.33°N, 157.70°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.30°WNaha — 26.34°N, 127.83°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.72°ENaha — 26.13°N, 127.69°ENaha — 26.21°N, 127.65°ENaha — 26.16°N, 127.79°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ECercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WGarschella — 47.42°N, 9.90°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.23°W

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The named rock units Turbinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 319 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 630 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turbinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,453 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 794 sites for Turbinidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

506 references

Each of the 1,671 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. 494 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 content2

Picture of Turbinidae

Credit
Takahashi
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Rafinesque 1815