Turritella (Turritella) alticostata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Turritella (Turritella)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 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.6–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.1–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–742 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya14.3 Mya274 ka

17 occurrences of Turritella (Turritella) alticostata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

17 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

3 formations

Yorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°W

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The named rock units Turritella (Turritella) alticostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Turritella (Turritella) alticostata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Turritella (Turritella) alticostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Turritella (Turritella) alticostata, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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

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No picture of Turritella (Turritella) alticostata 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 (Turritella) alticostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turritella (Turritella) alticostata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 1834)