Turritella buwaldana

Turritella buwaldana

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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 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 97 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 97 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 97 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 91 of 97 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 15 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 19 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 21 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 23 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 12 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132.6 Mya41.03 Mya139 Mya32 Mya

97 occurrences of Turritella buwaldana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

97 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

26 formations

Llajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WSanta Susana — 34.29°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.09°N, 118.56°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.54°N, 118.73°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 118.99°WTejon — 34.89°N, 119.14°WSantiago — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°WSantiago — 33.72°N, 117.79°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.23°N, 123.11°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WTyee — 43.74°N, 123.19°WTyee — 43.31°N, 123.08°WTyee — 42.96°N, 123.85°WManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WBushnell Rock — 43.23°N, 123.37°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WSan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WSan Francisquito — 34.41°N, 117.82°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WRaging River — 47.42°N, 121.97°WDays Creek — 43.01°N, 123.07°WAvenal — 35.88°N, 120.10°WMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WGoler — 35.58°N, 117.84°WUmpqua — 43.27°N, 123.46°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°W

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The named rock units Turritella buwaldana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turritella buwaldana and its relatives

Eocene

Where Turritella buwaldana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

524 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Turritella buwaldana, 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

25 references

Each of the 97 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. 13 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 content1

Picture of Turritella buwaldana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dickerson 1916