Turritella subvariabilis
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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 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Turritella subvariabilis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
- Saint Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group3
- St Mary's Formation · Chesapeake Group3
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Turritella subvariabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella subvariabilis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella subvariabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Chesacardium laqueatum laqueatum7 sites
- Chesapecten santamaria7 sites
- Dallarca idonea7 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum thori7 sites
- Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae7 sites
- Mercenaria tetrica7 sites
- Panopea goldfussii7 sites
- Turritella plebeia plebeia7 sites
- Astarte perplana6 sites
- Buccinofusus parilis6 sites
- Bulliopsis quadrata6 sites
- Conus deluvianus6 sites
- Laevihastula simplex6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) alveata6 sites
- Mactrodesma subponderosa6 sites
- Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta6 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Florimetis biplicata5 sites
- Glossus santamaria5 sites
- Leptomactra delumbis5 sites
- Stewartia anodonta5 sites
- Urosalpinx subrusticus5 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) andrewsi4 sites
- Bulliopsis marylandica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Turritella subvariabilis, 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- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America8
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Turritella subvariabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turritella subvariabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852