Turritella matarucana

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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
118 occurrences of Turritella matarucana 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
118 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
11 formations
- Castilletes Formation69
- Jimol Formation27
- Gatun Formation12
- Cantaure Formation3
- Angostura Formation · Santiago Group1
- Codore Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella matarucana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella matarucana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella matarucana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
459 taxa- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis5 sites
- Cymatophos5 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis5 sites
- Strioterebrum5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Caryocorbula prenasuta4 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum4 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Melongena consors4 sites
- Polinices4 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis3 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni3 sites
- Bursa rugosa3 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis3 sites
- Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana3 sites
- Conus molis3 sites
- Conus talis3 sites
- Cyclinella cyclica3 sites
- Knefastia3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
- Neverita paraguanensis3 sites
- Oliva cylindrica3 sites
- Polystira barretti3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Turritella matarucana, 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
9 references- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia92
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.10
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions4
- The Tertiary geology and systematic paleontology (phylum Mollusca) of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia, South America4
- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)1
- Olsson, 19641
- Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks1
Each of the 118 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 matarucana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella matarucana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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