Turricula

Turricula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

Turricula

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 644 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 118 of 644 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 273 of 644 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 50 of 644 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 131 of 644 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 644 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 644 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 19 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 49 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 36 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 22 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 19 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 19 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 26 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 27 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 55 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 78 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 35 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 14 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 13 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 14 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 17 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 51 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 29 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 35 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

644 occurrences of Turricula on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

644 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

122 formations

Round Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ETuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.06°N, 88.11°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.40°N, 93.71°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WBlakeley — 47.57°N, 122.42°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WSanta Susana — 34.31°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.86°N, 123.11°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WKama — 19.53°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.14°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°ECapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°E

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The named rock units Turricula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 98 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turricula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turricula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,771 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 354 sites for Turricula, 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

142 references

Each of the 644 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. 130 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 Turricula

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

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)