Turritella hamiltonensis

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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 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Turritella hamiltonensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turritella hamiltonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella hamiltonensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turritella hamiltonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Ciliatocardium brooksi3 sites
- Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis2 sites
- Panomya norvegica2 sites
- Pecten (Patinopecten) yakatagensis2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) galianoi2 sites
- Venericardia hamiltonensis2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) taliaferroi1 site
- Boreoscala1 site
- Cardium (Serripes) hamiltonensis1 site
- Cryptonatica1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Haminoea1 site
- Heterodonax1 site
- Hiatella arctica1 site
- Katherinella1 site
- Lucinoma columbiana1 site
- Macoma1 site
- Mactromeris ramonensis1 site
- Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa1 site
- Panomya1 site
- Psephaea corrugata1 site
- Scaphander alaskensis1 site
- Schizothaerus trapezoides1 site
- Tellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turritella hamiltonensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turritella hamiltonensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Turritella hamiltonensis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1932