Turritella chira
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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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
16 occurrences of Turritella chira 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
12 formations
- Talara Formation2
- Ceru Mainsjie Formation2
- Otuma Formation2
- Carbonera Formation1
- Saman Formation1
- Verdun Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella chira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella chira and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella chira and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana6 sites
- Architectonica5 sites
- Architectonica sullana5 sites
- Turritella samanensis5 sites
- Dorsanum lagunitensis4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
- Mactra4 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) samanensis4 sites
- Agaronia3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Ampullina ortoni3 sites
- Aturia peruviana3 sites
- Conus sauridens chiraensis3 sites
- Doliocassis samanica3 sites
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi3 sites
- Ostrea samanensis3 sites
- Peruluta mancorensis3 sites
- Pseudoliva3 sites
- Venericardia3 sites
- Amotapas2 sites
- Ancillarina2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Arginella samanensis2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Turritella chira, 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
9 references- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca4
- Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru3
- Eocene Mollusks from Curacao, West Indies2
- The Tertiary geology and systematic paleontology (phylum Mollusca) of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia, South America2
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium1
- Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia1
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
Each of the 16 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 chira was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 chira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella chira 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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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. Olsson 1928