Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus)

Pyrgiscus rufus (R.A.Philippi, 1836), a relative of Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) — not Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) itself

Not Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus). This is Pyrgiscus rufus (R.A.Philippi, 1836), a relative — both are Pyramidellidae.

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
TurbonillaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 138 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 138 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 138 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 138 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 138 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 138 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 138 occurrencesPleistocene — about 81 of 138 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 101 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

138 occurrences of Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) 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

138 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

38 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WDry Creek Sands — 34.70°S, 138.62°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ETuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°EOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°EPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EArmuelles — 10.17°N, 85.13°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°E

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The named rock units Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,507 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus), 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

45 references

Each of the 138 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. 33 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 Pyrgiscus rufus (R.A.Philippi, 1836)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1841)