Turritella mauryana
No picture of Turritella mauryana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 mauryana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
7 occurrences of Turritella mauryana 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
7 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
2 formations
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group6
- Ameke Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella mauryana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella mauryana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella mauryana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata7 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis7 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum6 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis6 sites
- Crepidula falconeri6 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis6 sites
- Fossularca africana6 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata6 sites
- Strepsidura spirata6 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni6 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita6 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa5 sites
- Callista kitsoni5 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis5 sites
- Glycymeris nigeriensis5 sites
- Hilda turriculata5 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera5 sites
- Poirieria calcitrapa5 sites
- Rectangularca africana5 sites
- Surcula africana5 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum4 sites
- Athleta lugardi4 sites
- Callista elongatotrigona4 sites
- Cominella douvillei4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Turritella mauryana, 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
2 references- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria6
- Gastropod predators and their dietry preference in and Eocene molluscan fauna from Nigeria1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Turritella mauryana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 mauryana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella mauryana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922