Turris

Turris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Turris

Richard Parker · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
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 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 338 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 338 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 338 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 338 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 338 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 338 occurrencesEocene — about 90 of 338 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 44 of 338 occurrencesMiocene — about 75 of 338 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 59 of 338 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 338 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 11 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 30 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 16 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 22 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 39 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 26 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 26 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 21 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 36 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 21 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 80 occurrences170.9 Mya129 ka188 Mya0 Mya

338 occurrences of Turris 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

338 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

87 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ERed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°EMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°ETuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 32.06°N, 88.11°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.84°N, 87.53°WCoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°ECoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EGhibirti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EGhibirti — 11.00°N, 51.07°ECapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.39°N, 122.96°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EQuimbriz — 5.56°S, 12.22°EBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WSabinetown Bluff — 31.40°N, 93.71°W

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The named rock units Turris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turris and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,955 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Turris, 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

96 references

Each of the 338 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. 84 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 content2

Picture of Turris

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Teravista
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batsch 1789