Turritella cocoditana

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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 most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
81 occurrences of Turritella cocoditana 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
81 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Turritella cocoditana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella cocoditana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella cocoditana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Cymatophos8 sites
- Sphaerocypraea wegeneri8 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis7 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis7 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena7 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis6 sites
- Melongena consors6 sites
- Prunum quirosense6 sites
- Conus5 sites
- Conus molis5 sites
- Conus talis5 sites
- Cymatophos paraguanensis5 sites
- Knefastia5 sites
- Latirus5 sites
- Polystira barretti5 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis5 sites
- Strioterebrum ulloa5 sites
- Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis5 sites
- Turbonilla5 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) tirantensis4 sites
- Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana4 sites
- Cyclinella cyclica4 sites
- Ficus carbasea carbasea4 sites
- Knefastia limonensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turritella cocoditana, 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
3 references- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia72
- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela8
- The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula1
Each of the 81 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 cocoditana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella cocoditana 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. (Hodson 1926)