Turritella nasuta

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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
66 occurrences of Turritella nasuta 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
66 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
14 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group19
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group16
- Laredo Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Nanjemoy Formation3
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The named rock units Turritella nasuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella nasuta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella nasuta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
837 taxa- Venericardia (Venericor) densata34 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta32 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni31 sites
- Polinices30 sites
- Athleta petrosa27 sites
- Ficus27 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis27 sites
- Buccitriton texanum26 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella24 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis24 sites
- Ancilla staminea23 sites
- Cadulus22 sites
- Latirus moorei21 sites
- Mesalia claibornensis21 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata21 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta20 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis20 sites
- Sinum20 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus19 sites
- Fusimitra19 sites
- Gegania antiquata19 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus19 sites
- Michela trabeatoides19 sites
- Architectonica18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Turritella nasuta, 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
11 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals18
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs12
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda11
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region8
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico6
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain2
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina2
- A new middle Eocene protocetid whale (Mammalia: Cetacea: Archaeoceti) and associated biota from Georgia1
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America1
Each of the 66 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 nasuta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.