Turritella karatsuensis
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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Turritella karatsuensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 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
- Waita Formation2
- Kishima Formation · Kishima Group1
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The named rock units Turritella karatsuensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella karatsuensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turritella karatsuensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- ? Eopheurotoma aff. higoensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) nagaoi1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) japonica1 site
- Callista1 site
- Calypteraea sp.1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)1 site
- Clathrus1 site
- Cornusolea fudoujii1 site
- Crassatellites matsuraensis1 site
- Creseis kishimaensis1 site
- Cyclina compressa1 site
- Cyclocardia yoshidai1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Fulgoraria (Psephaea)1 site
- Fulvia1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Gymnogobius oligocenicus1 site
- Heliconoides hospes1 site
- Limacina conica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Turritella karatsuensis, 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- Taphonomy of bivalve assemblages in the upper part of the Paleogene Ashiya Group, southwestern Japan2
- Sedimentary facies and fossil molluscs of the Oligocene Ashiya Group in the Hikoshima Takenokojim and Nishiyama area, Shimonoseki City, Southwest Japan2
- An Early Oligocene fish-fauna from Japan reconstructed from otoliths1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Turritella karatsuensis 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 karatsuensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella karatsuensis 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. Nagao 1928