Turrinosyrinx

Turrinosyrinx

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 13 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya23.04 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

21 occurrences of Turrinosyrinx on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

21 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

7 formations

Keasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.85°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.33°WSnatolskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°EKovachinskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°ELincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EMarrowstone — 48.05°N, 122.69°W

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The named rock units Turrinosyrinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turrinosyrinx and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turrinosyrinx and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Turrinosyrinx, 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

7 references

Each of the 21 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 Turrinosyrinx

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickman 1976