Turbo

Turbo is a genus of large sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Turbo

Frédéric Ducarme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
TurbininaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 544 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 51 of 544 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 544 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 544 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 544 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 53 of 544 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 544 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 544 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 544 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 544 occurrencesMiocene — about 59 of 544 occurrencesPliocene — about 94 of 544 occurrencesPleistocene — about 199 of 544 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 38 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 11 occurrences197–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 5 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 17 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 6 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 16 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 13 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 13 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 13 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 38 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 318 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

544 occurrences of Turbo 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

544 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

120 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.62°N, 11.83°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.95°ECassian — 46.60°N, 12.26°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°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°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°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.72°ENaha — 26.13°N, 127.69°ENaha — 26.21°N, 127.65°ENaha — 26.29°N, 127.77°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°ESobe — 26.40°N, 127.73°ETamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°ENari — 28.00°N, 66.00°ENari — 30.17°N, 67.00°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.83°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.85°S, 115.50°EAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WKazhdumi — 29.84°N, 52.88°EFutuna Limestone — 18.22°S, 178.78°E

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The named rock units Turbo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 239 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbo and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turbo and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,857 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 237 sites for Turbo, and this reads all 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

191 references

Each of the 544 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. 179 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 content3

Picture of Turbo

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Frédéric Ducarme
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Photogrammetry

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Turbo canaliculatus · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:543098-Mollusca

3D model

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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurbininae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758