Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turbo (Callopoma)PBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus 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
12 occurrences- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene83%
- Holocene8%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
194 taxa- Anomia peruviana4 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus4 sites
- Chione californiensis4 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana4 sites
- Mexicardia procera4 sites
- Acanthina3 sites
- Diplodonta orbella3 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa3 sites
- Leukoma grata3 sites
- Megapitaria squalida3 sites
- Oliva (Oliva) incrassata3 sites
- Semele flavescens3 sites
- Tegula rugosa3 sites
- Acanthina muricata tuberculata2 sites
- Antisabia panamensis2 sites
- Arcopsis solida2 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Barbatia (Acar) gradata2 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) stercusmuscarum2 sites
- Chionopsis gnidia2 sites
- Conus perplexus2 sites
- Conus regularis2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Crucibulum spinosum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus, 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
9 references- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)2
- The Fossil Coral Reefs of Al-Aqaba, Jordan2
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico2
- Warm-water mollusc assemblages from northern Chile (Mejillones Peninsula): new evidence for permanent El Nino-like conditions during Pliocene warmth?1
- Late Pleistocene coral-reef development on Isla Coronados, Gulf of California1
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas1
- Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History expedition to western Mexico. Part 7: Corals and coral reefs in the Gulf of California1
- Additional notes on the Pliocene and Pleistocene fauna of the Turtle Bay area, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 12 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. 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.
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No picture of Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itTurbo (Callopoma) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1828)