Turbocheilus

No picture of Turbocheilus 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 Turbocheilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnomphalinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Anomphalidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Anomphalidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anomphalidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433.4 Mya426.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Turbocheilus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Huixingshao — 28.55°N, 108.85°E

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The named rock units Turbocheilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Turbocheilus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Turbocheilus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turbocheilus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Turbocheilus 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 Turbocheilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turbocheilus 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 itPycnomphalinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1907