Turbonilla

Turbonilla is a large genus of ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Turbonilla

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurbonillinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 673 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 673 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 673 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 673 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 673 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 673 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 673 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 673 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 673 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 673 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 673 occurrencesMiocene — about 203 of 673 occurrencesPliocene — about 83 of 673 occurrencesPleistocene — about 248 of 673 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–59 Mya — about 7 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 18 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 22 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 37 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 48 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 135 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 388 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

673 occurrences of Turbonilla 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

673 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

121 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ECercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 95.94°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°W

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The named rock units Turbonilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 97 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 203 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbonilla and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turbonilla and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,709 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 266 sites for Turbonilla, 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

159 references

Each of the 673 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. 147 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 content1

Picture of Turbonilla

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turbonilla 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1826)