Turritella reversa

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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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
13 occurrences of Turritella reversa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
13 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
5 formations
- Santa Susana Formation8
- Lodo Formation1
- Sepultura Formation1
- Las Virgenes Formation1
- San Francisquito Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella reversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella reversa and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Turritella reversa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis9 sites
- Macrocallista furlongi5 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis5 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta5 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii4 sites
- Sulcobuccinum howardi4 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis3 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Dentalium cooperi3 sites
- Glycimeris major3 sites
- Lacunaria striata3 sites
- Macrocallista stantoni3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus3 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis3 sites
- Turritella peninsularis3 sites
- Venericardia planicosta venturensis3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Crassatella branneri2 sites
- Eocypraea novasumma2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
- Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Turritella reversa, 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
8 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California6
- First report of Oniscidia Mörch, 1852 (Neogastropoda, Harpidae) in the northeast Pacific fossil record and paleobiogeographic review of the genus1
- Fossil gastropods from the Late Paleocene Sepultura Formation, Baja California, Mexico1
- Paleontological evidence of the Campanian to Early Paleocene paleogeography of Baja California1
- Turritella zonation across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, California1
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California1
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 13 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 reversa
- 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 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waring 1917