Turritella meganosensis protumescens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turritella meganosensisPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Turritella meganosensis protumescens 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
10 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
- Llajas Formation8
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group2
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The named rock units Turritella meganosensis protumescens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella meganosensis protumescens and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella meganosensis protumescens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Eocernina hannibali3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki2 sites
- Strepsidura ficus2 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata1 site
- Calorebama dilleri lineata1 site
- Domenginella claytonensis1 site
- Fusinus merriami1 site
- Galeodea1 site
- Galeodea sutterensis1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii1 site
- Latirus roseburgensis1 site
- Macrocallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis1 site
- Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri1 site
- Miltha packi1 site
- Natica (Naticarius) uvasana1 site
- Nayadina (Exputens) llajasensis1 site
- Nitidavenus tejonensis1 site
- Nuculanidae1 site
- Olivella mathewsonii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Turritella meganosensis protumescens, 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- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California8
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon1
Each of the 10 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 meganosensis protumescens
- 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 meganosensis protumescens 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 meganosensis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam and Turner 1937