Turbo festivus
No picture of Turbo festivus 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 Turbo festivus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurboPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Turbo festivus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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 Turbo festivus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turbo festivus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Turbo festivus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Potamides diadema3 sites
- Hertleinites aguila2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
- Paladmete perforata2 sites
- Pinna pontica2 sites
- Plicatula variata2 sites
- Acroteuthis aboriginalis1 site
- Actaeonella oviformis1 site
- Ampullina avellana1 site
- Aphanoptyxis andersoni1 site
- Clisocolus indubitus1 site
- Crioceratites latus1 site
- Dentalium californicum1 site
- Glauconia hesperia1 site
- Hertleinia rectoris1 site
- Hoplocrioceras duncanense1 site
- Hoplocrioceras remondi1 site
- Inoceramus colonicus1 site
- Inoceramus ovatoides1 site
- Leionucula gabbi1 site
- Lytoceras aulaeum1 site
- Neocrassina californica1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Pleuromya papyracea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turbo festivus, 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
2 references- Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California2
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
Each of the 3 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 Turbo festivus 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 Turbo festivus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turbo festivus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurbo through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938