Turritella ambulacrum

Turritella ambulacrum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurritellaPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 29 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya38.2 Mya11.1 Mya

29 occurrences of Turritella ambulacrum 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

29 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

9 formations

Chenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.73°S, 67.50°WChenque — 45.42°S, 67.42°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.87°S, 71.70°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WNavidad — 33.83°S, 71.83°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.75°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WNavidad — 33.93°S, 71.85°WSan Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.42°WSan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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

Turritella ambulacrum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turritella ambulacrum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Turritella ambulacrum, 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

11 references

Each of the 29 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 Turritella ambulacrum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Turritella ambulacrum 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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What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1846