Turritella

Turritella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.

Turritella

Dr. Zachi Evenor · 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
Also called
turret shellPBDB
Sits inside
TurritellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 5921 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 5921 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 15 of 5921 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 5921 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5921 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 5921 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 114 of 5921 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1353 of 5921 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 579 of 5921 occurrencesEocene — about 1235 of 5921 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 341 of 5921 occurrencesMiocene — about 1540 of 5921 occurrencesPliocene — about 420 of 5921 occurrencesPleistocene — about 314 of 5921 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 6 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 9 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 7 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 16 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 31 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 50 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 117 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 73 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 165 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 822 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 557 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 431 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 449 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 564 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 259 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 670 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 761 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 921 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

5,921 occurrences of Turritella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5,921 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

653 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.50°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.91°N, 88.51°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.61°N, 88.65°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 90.00°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.12°N, 80.33°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.96°N, 120.07°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.95°WVaqueros — 34.30°N, 117.49°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 35.26°N, 120.54°WVaqueros — 34.09°N, 118.43°WVaqueros — 34.54°N, 118.90°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 33.93°N, 120.05°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 34.09°N, 119.04°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 119.66°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.85°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 118.82°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.36°N, 118.94°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 119.02°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.44°N, 119.20°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.30°N, 120.15°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.34°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 35.77°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WSanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.30°N, 118.68°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.81°WRipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 34.39°N, 88.89°WRipley — 33.86°N, 96.83°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.85°N, 88.25°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 28.92°N, 98.55°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 30.65°N, 96.32°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.33°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 32.62°N, 93.29°WCook Mountain — 26.91°N, 99.27°WCook Mountain — 31.14°N, 95.92°WCook Mountain — 31.19°N, 95.84°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 32.59°N, 96.32°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 31.12°N, 96.82°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.62°N, 98.06°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 98.89°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.38°N, 99.00°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.18°WEscondido — 29.23°N, 99.47°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.86°WEscondido — 29.08°N, 100.00°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.08°WEscondido — 29.03°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.16°WEscondido — 28.97°N, 100.24°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.71°WEscondido — 28.59°N, 100.40°WEscondido — 28.55°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WEscondido — 28.60°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.53°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WKincaid — 30.10°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 32.13°N, 87.40°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.18°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 33.14°N, 96.11°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.80°N, 97.65°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 28.53°N, 100.23°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 98.99°WKincaid — 29.16°N, 99.57°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.74°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.64°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.85°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 31.39°N, 92.67°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 35.01°N, 90.79°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 91.90°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.60°N, 119.00°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.75°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 8.76°N, 75.89°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.48°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.28°N, 99.66°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 38.41°N, 97.99°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.82°WKiowa — 38.53°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.43°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.65°N, 98.01°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.93°WKiowa — 38.73°N, 97.53°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.75°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WAquia — 38.33°N, 77.27°WAquia — 37.29°N, 77.25°WAquia — 37.35°N, 77.25°WAquia — 37.80°N, 77.36°WAquia — 37.96°N, 77.35°WAquia — 38.17°N, 77.19°WAquia — 38.22°N, 77.28°WAquia — 38.37°N, 77.30°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.75°N, 76.98°WAquia — 38.97°N, 76.76°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.56°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.30°N, 77.46°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°W

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The named rock units Turritella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 629 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 689 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turritella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turritella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,996 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,276 sites for Turritella, and this reads 240 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

780 references

Each of the 5,921 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. 768 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 content3

Picture of Turritella

Credit
Dr. Zachi Evenor
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
turritella plebia · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-2935

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Lamarck 1799