Turritella packardi
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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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Turritella packardi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Turritella packardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella packardi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turritella packardi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Eriphyla veatchii4 sites
- Turritella chicoensis4 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii3 sites
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)3 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi2 sites
- Etea angulata2 sites
- Tessarolax grahami2 sites
- Anchura halberdopsis1 site
- Astarte tuscana1 site
- Biplica obliqua1 site
- Canadoceras multisulcatum1 site
- Confusiscala newcombii1 site
- Fimbrivasum medium1 site
- Forsia baia1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli1 site
- Indogrammatodon vancouverensis1 site
- Lysis suciensis1 site
- Murphitys corona1 site
- Opis (Hesperopis) holzana1 site
- Opis (Hesperopis) triangulata1 site
- Paosia pentzensis1 site
- Paraesa zeta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turritella packardi, 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- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California3
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Turritella packardi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella packardi 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam 1941