Turritella petersoni
No picture of Turritella petersoni 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 petersoni, 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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Turritella petersoni 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
11 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
4 formations
- Antelope Formation · Great Valley Group4
- Budden Canyon Formation3
- Redding Formation1
- Venedo Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Turritella petersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella petersoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turritella petersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Caryocorbula onoensis2 sites
- Igonoia shastana2 sites
- Paosia californica2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) haidana1 site
- Acteon politus1 site
- Baculites fairbanksi1 site
- Brewericeras breweri1 site
- Caestocorbula attina1 site
- Caestocorbula aura1 site
- Calva (Egelicalva) nitida1 site
- Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata1 site
- Durania californica1 site
- Euspira mariana1 site
- Idonearca truncata1 site
- Igonoia kieli1 site
- Inoceramus eolobatus1 site
- Lembulus translucidus1 site
- Megatrigonia (Apiotrigonia) condoni1 site
- Otostoma atopos1 site
- Paosia colusaensis1 site
- Protocardia translucida1 site
- Pseudhelicoceras petersoni1 site
- Puzosia (Anapuzosia) tucuyensis1 site
- Romaniceras deverioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Turritella petersoni, 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
4 references- Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America4
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast4
- The pseudomelaniid gastropod Paosia from the marine Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and a review of the age and paleobiogeography of the genus2
- New species of neritid gastropods from Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic strata of the Pacific Slope of North America1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Turritella petersoni 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 petersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turritella petersoni 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.
Keep going
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