Turbonilla torquata

Gould, 1853 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Turbonilla torquata 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene90%
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
4 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation4
- San Pedro Sand Formation2
- Tomioka Formation · Taga Group1
- Bay Point Formation1
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The named rock units Turbonilla torquata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turbonilla torquata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turbonilla torquata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
972 taxa- Caesia fossatus8 sites
- Callianax biplicata8 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum8 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus8 sites
- Acteocina culcitella7 sites
- Caesia perpinguis7 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum7 sites
- Crepidula onyx7 sites
- Cryptomya californica7 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium7 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii7 sites
- Hipponix tumens7 sites
- Lacuna (Epheria) unifasciata7 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata7 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli7 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa7 sites
- Saccella taphria7 sites
- Seila montereyensis7 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum7 sites
- Tresus nuttallii7 sites
- Turritella cooperi7 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata6 sites
- Acteocina harpa6 sites
- Alia carinata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turbonilla torquata, 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- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Pectinids from the Taga Group of the Joban Coalfield1
- Pleistocene molluscan notes. I. The Bay Point Formation at its type locality1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pleistocene at Signal hill, Long Beach, California1
- Report on Pleistocene Molluscan Fauna at Capistrano Beach, Orange County, Calif1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California1
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California1
Each of the 10 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.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turbonilla torquata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gould, 1853
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turbonilla torquata 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 itTurbonilla through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1853)