Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turritella (Bactrospira)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
107 occurrences of Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
107 occurrences- Eocene2%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene76%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
25 formations
- Gatun Formation46
- Tubará Formation9
- Castilletes Formation6
- Pirabas Formation4
- Ferrotepec Formation3
- Collazo Shale Formation3
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The named rock units Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
775 taxa- Psammacoma gatunensis30 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis25 sites
- Architectonica nobilis23 sites
- Cymatophos veatchi23 sites
- Olivella (Niteoliva) terryi22 sites
- Trigoniocardia22 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum21 sites
- Caryocorbula prenasuta18 sites
- Bivetiella dariena16 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis16 sites
- Macrocallista maculata16 sites
- Antillophos candeanus15 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum15 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis14 sites
- Natica bolus14 sites
- Anadara12 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri12 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana12 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) fissicosta11 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) springvaleense10 sites
- Lepidopecten scissuratus10 sites
- Oliva gatunensis10 sites
- Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana10 sites
- Bellucina actinus9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira, 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
27 references- Spatial and stratigraphic variation in marine paleoenvironments in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama24
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.21
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia8
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel6
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica6
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)4
- Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia4
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia4
- Miocene Mollusca from the Neighbourhood of Cucurrupi, Department of Chocó, Colombia3
- Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
Each of the 107 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. 15 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
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No picture of Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)