Turritella dutexata

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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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Turritella dutexata 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
25 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
7 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group4
- McBean Formation2
- Barnwell Sand Formation1
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Yegua Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Turritella dutexata 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 dutexata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella dutexata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
470 taxa- Athleta petrosa13 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta13 sites
- Dentalium minutistriatum12 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata12 sites
- Ancilla staminea11 sites
- Ficus11 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)11 sites
- Latirus moorei10 sites
- Neverita limula10 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis10 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis9 sites
- Bullata semen9 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata9 sites
- Conus sauridens9 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis9 sites
- Marginella9 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda9 sites
- Architectonica8 sites
- Buccitriton texanum8 sites
- Cadulus8 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni8 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella8 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus8 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Turritella dutexata, 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
6 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals8
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana4
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama3
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina3
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti1
Each of the 25 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 dutexata
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella dutexata 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1895