Turritella guppyi

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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 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
14 occurrences of Turritella guppyi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
14 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
7 formations
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group6
- Las Cahobas Formation · Artibonite Group2
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group2
- Mao Formation1
- Punta Gavilán Formation1
- Caujarao Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella guppyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella guppyi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Turritella guppyi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
536 taxa- Amusium2 sites
- Bulla2 sites
- Ficus pilsbryi2 sites
- Mytilopsis2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Polinices hepaticus2 sites
- "Arca" umbonata morantensis1 site
- "Arca" yaquensis berryi1 site
- Abra (Abra)1 site
- Abra (Abra) triangulata1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acmaturris brisis1 site
- Acmaturris comparata1 site
- Acmaturris scalida1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteocina anetaspira1 site
- Acteocina bullata1 site
- Acteocina lepta1 site
- Acteon eurystoma1 site
- Acteon textilis1 site
- Adelocythara primolevis1 site
- Adeona1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turritella guppyi, 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- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions6
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy3
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti2
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México1
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 14 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 guppyi
- 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1909)